Future Development

In the future I would like to refine this project to improve the detection capabilities primarily through improvement of the electronic circuit. Specifically I'd like to try additional antenna designs - possibly incorporating an external connector so antennas can be swapped out - and add in a variable capacitor or other method to narrow the target frequency for detection. I suspect an issue with my current design is that the low power EMF from communication transmissions are hard to detect against a noisy background of higher power EMF from AC powered electronics.

Additional work in wire routing, noise isolation and getting some sort of measurable metric from the antenna signal would help improve the precision of the device. While I don't think this is necessary for OUIfi to be effective, additional precision may be necessary for the process of developing frequency tuning.

Finally I want to look further into possible applications of the connected ecosystem the particle argon platform enables. Diverging from the more speculative focus I could see applications in EMF level monitoring to say encourage a user to decrease the amount of electronics use in their environment or to notify in the case of unusually high EMF exposure if say a large power transformer were installed. Another idea I had was for the device to collect the EMF signal data over a time interval along with relevant contextual data such as geolocation and collection time/date which could be visualized as a graph or sound clip. If the device is able to scan over different frequencies this could create a sort of "snapshot" of these invisible signals - helping the use better understand the energetic waves in their environment.