I
have joined as an intern in a company named Cateina technologies,
which specializes in field of Blockchain technology.
On my
first day, I was introduced to all members of the company.Along with
me, my two friends have also joined as interns in this company. With
a brief introduction of the company and its various products and
ongoing projects, we were assigned tasks. We started our day by
learning a online course on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by
Princeton University. I learnt about hash functions and their
applications, consensus mechanism, proof of work methodology used by
Bitcoin and other features of cryptocurrencies. This cleared all the
doubts regarding bitcoin and its working principle - blockchain,
which I had only come across in newspaper articles.
We
were assigned an IOT(Internet Of Things) project. We had to come up
with a prototype for Cold Storage Solutions.We were provided with an
arduino kit and asked to come up with solution, within one week
(which we did complete!).
Rest
of the day we brainstormed over various methods to solve the problem
and wrote down the specifications of the given problem statement. We
came up with model which used RFID tag system. But later learnt that
other checks like cost, reliability, size, etc have to be taken into
consideration for a successful prototype.
We
had HR activity on the second working day. I volunteered for the
non-technical news. So that morning I read and explained recent
events happening in fields of politics, sports, entertainment, health
and fitness. After presenting each article of news, everyone would
pour in their own opinions and we would have follow up group
discussion. I really enjoyed the half an hour seesion we had.
On
the second working day, we came up with alternative solutions, like
temperature sensor, ardunio board sending data via bluetooth module
or wifi sensor or 3G/leap sield.The problem of identification of
containers in truck was resolved by assigning unique identification
numbers to each container and truck by the arduino board, thus
replacing the costly RFID system out of our prototype. For achieving
long distance communication, to send the temperature and id numbers
of containers, we decided to use wifi module in our prototype.
We
had 'Fun Friday' group activity in morning, on my third working day.
Every team had to come up with ideas for their own 'Mini Cateina'
company and present its company's agenda, misson, long and short term
goals on paper.We had to present our company's goal and vision using
newspaper and magazine cutouts.Each team would decide the CEO and
respective members of company. That was also enjoyable.
On
our third working day, we were completing our project and writing the
code for the arduino board. We learnt how to code using Aduino IDE.
We learnt how to build circuits. We simulated our temperature sensor
by entering temperature values and wifi module was simulated using a
LED alert. If temperature value would be out of range then an alert
would be raised, otherwise not. At the end of the day, we presented
it to our manager and it was accepted.
