Hello builders of the future-
I would like to ask for advice from you experts. Currently, we have a school project that we are unsure if it will be feasible or not.
INTRO TO OUR PROJECT:
We are going to make a device for traffic enforcers that will eliminate Traffic Violation Receipt (TVR).
The device has 10 options (10 violations ex. obstruction, reckless driving, etc).
We're going to use TFT screen for the options and fingerprint scanner for 1)confirmation that the driver agreed that he violated and 2)check if the driver is registered. After the microcontroller matches his fingerprint to the stored fingerprints, the sketch will command the ESP8266 module to send the violations plus the name of driver (or name of stored fingerprint) to the "database".
Here we are considering two things for the database:
A. Excel
B. IoT Cloud (We prefer this one better)
Afterwards, if the driver wants to pay fee, he will go to the office and they will manually clear his record in the Excel or IoT Cloud.
OUR PROBLEM:
Our senior told us that it is not feasible in Arduino and that we should use Raspberry Pi because of the constantly updating / refreshing database. However, we have read a lot of literature, watched a lot of videos, and even stumbled upon an almost similar project (Only, they didn't use Arduino and didn't make a device. They made a phone app and used IoT for the database). This is only a proposal project and if signed, we are going to do the actual next semester. The number of participants has been limited to just the three of us groupmates to prevent ethical issues. In short, it is just a prototype. I would like to hear some expert advice if our analysis is correct that our study is feasible, and if not, why.
Thank you very much for reading this post. We hope to hear from you soon. Good day!