Novel Electrical Engineering Capstone Project Development

I’m preparing for my final-year capstone in Electrical Engineering Technology and need a fresh, innovative project concept taken all the way from idea to proof-of-concept. The exact specialty is flexible—power systems, telecommunications, automation and control, or any emerging crossover—as long as the topic feels genuinely new and technically sound. I’m equally open to renewable-energy twists, smart-grid perspectives or IoT-driven approaches if they help the work stand out.

What I need from you is twofold:

1. A fully referenced research paper (IEEE style) that explains the problem, surveys current literature, details design calculations or simulations, and justifies the novelty of the solution.
2. A working prototype or scaled model that physically demonstrates the core concept and produces measurable results I can present during my defense.

Please outline your proposed idea, the development tools or simulation platforms you plan to use (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, Proteus, LabVIEW, Altium, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, PLCs), and a rough timeline showing key milestones from design to testing. I’ll judge success on originality, clarity of documentation, and the prototype’s ability to replicate the claims in the paper.