2025 CREOL Senior Design Showcase Winners Demonstrate a More Secure Security System
Prize money and accolades awarded to three top teams
Imagine a future where your security system is impossible to hack. That was the idea behind the winner of CREOL’s 2025 Senior Design Showcase, “Image Surveillance and Protection Yielder.”
“We were transmitting information without wires, without using Wi-Fi,” CREOL student Gabryella Baldaci explains.
Alongside Baldaci, the winning group comprised Robert Josephson, Luke Reyes, Alejandro Lopez Zelaya, and Armani Garcia. The concept started with a new lens design that can capture a wide field of view. The system could also detect how many people were in the frame.
“Then we got the live feed and we transmit it through free space from one place to the other, from one building to the other,” Baldaci says, “And because it’s through free space, it’s a wireless connection. Without it being connected to the internet, it means that there’s no way you can hack it.”
The first-place team took home a $500 prize to be split among the teammates.
“It just felt like all those hours in the lab paid off,” Baldaci says.
The second-place team’s project won a $300 prize. It was titled “Solder Paste Dispenser”, and was designed by Mikell Alfonso, Nathan Boucher, Elizar Tsymlyakov, and Edward Weir. This project also won “Best in Show” at the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) Senior Design 2 Showcase Competition.
The third-place project, winning $200, “Proximity-Based Hazard Detection System for Older Vehicles” was designed by Jonathan Joslin, Michael Nelson, Allison Oehmann, Patrik Regan, and Sebastien St Hilaire. This project also won first place in the interdisciplinary project category at the CECS competition.
