Student Innovation Project
What is a SIP?
My Development Overview
A Student Innovation Project (SIP), is a final project that requires a UAT student to plan and develop an innovative idea that could be introduced into the active market. The student must prove that the idea is indeed innovative via current market research and national/global trends. The student then must develop the project into at least an 85% (with professor/professors approval) proof-of-concept prototype with minimal outside assistance unless the project is worked on within a team, if so each team member must provide equal or near-equal commitment into the project with proof in order to satisfy approval.
My Student Innovation Project was completed alone. Although outside assistance in the form of equal team members was welcome, I expected to complete the project alone. The project began with a simple brainstorm, I attempted to imagine something that would be nice-to-have or something that is missing but still relevant to my interest and my major. After I came up with the idea, I wrote up a document with research pertaining to the market of which this project may reside in and if anyone else at all has ever thought of or developed such a thing. After forming a solid development plan in the form of a list along with descriptions, I began development of the project.
System Pilot
Process Analyzation Tool
System Pilot is a process analyzation tool that intends to assist in increasing the situational awareness in ones own Windows machine by providing an application that is able to quickly decipher the purpose and legitimacy of an application or process. Typically, many people do not know what goes on in their own system, therefore wouldn’t it be nice to be able to quickly tell if that one strange looking process is actually a normal and safe process and not some malicious software? Instead of having to right click and select "Search Online", or searching manually via a process name, only to be met with a forum that has no direct answer whether that running process is safe or malicious. System Pilot however removes this frustration, with easy access to its functions, you will be able to quickly decipher the purpose and safety of any running application, background, or system process!
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System Pilot features the following:
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Real-time application, background, and system monitoring and rating/scoring. Be able to view all running processes on your system in real-time, whether it be an application that you can visually see displayed on your monitor, or one of the many essential Windows processes, you will always know what and how many processes are actively running on your system. In addition to real-time monitoring, each process, upon the applications initialization, will automatically be given a trust rating and a Virus Total score so that at a glance you will be able to see what processes may be completely safe while others may be hiding malware.
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Automatic process analyzation. The AI-powered Process Analyzer will be able to quickly determine the purpose of any process along with whether the process is likely safe or not based on what the process is, its relevancy, its file path, and what publisher the process is associated with
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Process pinning. Ability to pin any process that you would particularly like to keep an eye on, pinning processes will provide real-time CPU and Memory usage monitoring so that you can make sure that any process of which you deem to be suspicious is not performing out of place.
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Application/process execution and shutdown logging. A simple logging function that will keep track of exactly what date and time when each process was initiated and shutdown.