Project Timeline

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Project Home Automation
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Project Components

• Embedded
• Input from two sensors (temperature, proximity,
  motion, pressure, light, etc.)
• Output to display (LCD, LED, 7-segment) or
  actuator (motor)
• Microcontroller program on Arduino
• Zigbee for communication between Arduinos?
• Mobile
• Android application
• Wireless communication (over Internet) with
  embedded part of system

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Architecture
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Project Timeline

• Form group of two students by today!
• Get started on serial communication part today
• Choose project components by next Wednesday
• First demo June 10
• Second demo June 19
• Final demo last day of class (June 26)

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Project Requirements

• Your system will have 10 functional requirements
  and four non-functional requirements
• Groups of 3 will likely have more requirements
• Once youve decided on the components youd like
  to use, please discuss the requirements with a
  member of the instruction staff
• Changes to the requirements must be approved by
  the instructor

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Limitations/Restrictions

• As far as I know, we cannot give static IP
  addresses to wireless devices at Penn
• This means that to communicate over the internet,
  your embedded component may have to be wired,
  either
• to an ethernet connection
• via serial/USB to a wireless device, e.g. a
  laptop or a mobile phone

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Arduino

• Simple microcontroller and OS
• Programming language very similar to Java
• Lots of online examples (http//arduino.cc)
• Lots of add-on components
• simple sensors and displays
• Arduino-to-Arduino wireless networking
• analog input/output