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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Smart Home Lab

Department of Computer Science

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Smart Home Demos
These are some of the demos that has been developed in the Smart Home Lab.

Smart Medicine -The Smart Medicine demo helps managing the medicine management of resident of the Smart Home. There are three modules: the Doctor, the Pharmacy and the Smart Home. At the Doctor’s module the doctor enters the prescription detials. At the pharmacy module the prescription information is received, and the pharmacist prepares an RFID enabled container and makes the data available to the Smart Home. The Smart Home module downloads the data from the pharmacy, checks for conflicts, stores it in a database providing data to other subsystems.

Smart Fridge- The Smart Fridge Demo help tracking the food items in the Smart Home and see when to reorder an item, keep track of the current weight and when the item has been checked-in or checked-out

Three-Button Interface- Easy to use user interface that consists of only three buttons which the user navigates to perform different functions.

Lights Control- Using light sensors appliances are turned on/off according to the person's preferences

TV Control- Using the computer to control different appliances. This helps reducing the number of remote controls.

Smart Microwave- Control the microwave using the computer and automatically set the appropriate time and give reminders

Welcome Bundle- A friendly message spoken by the computer when you get into the smart home lab

 

Smart Home Demos Under Development
These are some of the projects that are currently under development or are in future plans.

Smart Door - Gain access to the smart house without the need of key. This Smart Door also
should have the capability of receiving commands to open/close the door from the
resident of the house. The Smart Door should provide a secure locking mechanism and
when granting access to the Smart House only authorized person should receive it. Smart
Door also should make sure that the person will not get hurt while opening the door and
that in case of a power failure the door can be operated manually with the same security
features.

Smart Bed - To monitor the resident sleep habits and make sure that no accident occur
during the night like the resident falling from the bed.

Smart Bathroom - Assist the resident of the house when going to the bathroom with the
automation of some components to make it easier to use.

Smart Blinds - To operate the blinds, open and close them automatically based on the resident
preferences or commands.