Remote-controlled Central Alarm Clock (RCAC)

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Remote-controlled Central Alarm Clock (RCAC)

• EEE374W
• Project 3 (Part A)
• Team Members
• Ndapandula Nakashole (NN)
• Tshepo Serameng (TS)
• Olefile Toto (OT)

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Concept Overview

• RCAC is an economical alarm clock for the entire
  house.
• Subsystems
• Configuration module
• Display and Control module
• Sound module (speakers) in each room
• Communications
• Wire-based connection from config to control
  module
• Wire-based connection from config to output
  module
• Infra-red transmitter/receiver in control module

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Application Context

• Target market
• Consumer electronics
• Where it is used
• At home by parents to wake kids up
• In offices by managers to call employees to their
  offices
• End-user
• Anyone but children to use under parent
  supervision
• Other uses
• Can also be used in ships

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Motivation

• Major problem that the concept solves
• Parents need not to get out of bed to wake kids
  up
• Alarm output can be adjusted to very high,
  forcing children to wake up in case they try to
  ignore it.
• Possible uses/applications of the system
• As a one-alarm clock for the whole house, each
  room can have a different time that the alarm
  will go off in that room.
• In ships for alerting crew (in different decks of
  danger) or just to wake them up as well.
• By managers as a means to call employees to their
  offices.

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Enclosure

• Display and Control subsystem
• To be located in parents room
• Buttons correspond to rooms in the house

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Communications

• Alarm goes off in the appropriate room, not in
  all rooms configured with a RCAC sound module.

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Remote-controlled Central Alarm Clock (RCAC)

• An economical alarm clock for the entire house.
• With RCAC Parents need not to get out of bed to
  wake kids up
• Can be used by managers as a means to call
  employees to the managers office.

This control module is to be located in parents
room. Buttons correspond to rooms configured with
a speaker