ECE497 Project - Camper Automation

Team members: Marius Schwab, Vinzenz Felder, Daniel Patzer(aka. Harry Potter)

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Executive Summary


In the Project we are using a 7” LED Touch panel to display sensor data and control outputs. Sensor data that will be displayed on the screen include two independent temperature measurements. The data will be displayed in number and through a graph. For monitoring the temperature behavior over time. Additionally, the 12V battery voltage will be measured and displayed. The GUI include Buttons to control a one channel relay to switch on led Lights.



The two 3V relays can provide 12 V and 10A power output.



The two TMP 101 temperature sensor are used to measure indoor and outdoor temperature.



Three demo buttons on the LCD screen can be pressed to switch the 12V Power. This can control the heating or ventilation system or simply used to turn on 12V LEDs to light up your camper.



Indoor and outdoor temperature values are monitored on the screen. An additional menu allows to set specific times to switch the relays autonomously. This allows for example to switch off the water pump during the night.

Installation Instructions
GitHub The project is located on GitHub here:

In the Github repository, you will find a README file with all necessary installation.

Hardware Here are the links for the specific hardware we used for this project.

7-inch LCD-Screen - https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-1024x600-Capacitive-Display-Raspberry/dp/B074Z6FCFW

Beagle Bone Black - https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/BeagleBoard-by-GHI/BBB01-SC-505?qs=sGAEpiMZZMuG6%2fXKM6MUaQUPc9Y91hBEalrDTtma%2fpY%3d

3V Relay - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0798CZDR9/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Micro HDMI to HDMI - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZL2PAQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Voltage Regulator 3A - https://www.amazon.com/MP1584EN-Honbay%C3%82-Step-Down-Adjustable-Converter/dp/B018JWCX8M/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1541445419&sr=1-3&keywords=MP1584EN+ultra+Small+DC-DC

Assembly


The very first step was to screw all hardware components on a 6mm acrylic plate with three levels. The bottom layer consists of two relays, step-down converter, two TMP101 sensors and beagle bone black. We are only using one 12 Volt 1.25A power supply input to provide the necessary power for the hole system. The second layer contains two board one for the HDMI converter the other is necessary to interface the touchscreen.

User Instructions
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Highlights
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Theory of Operation
For our communication we used Slack. Slack is a open source cloud-based messenger service. Additional our Milestone plan shows our time



Work Breakdown
For our Project, we separated the work-tasks in 3 packages.

Package 1 ( Daniel Patzer) - Prototype design and Hardware selection - relay control with button interface

Package 2 ( Marius Schwab) - Software development --> clock function, clock alarm --> temperature reading of 2 sensors - implementation in GUI

Package 3 (Vinzenz Felder) - GUI design - GUI programming (implementation of GUI function, etc.) - documentation

Future Work
The main aim of this project is to build a universal usable control element for a camper. Therefore we have integrated relays to control the specific function of a camper, like the lights or the pump. To execute all the function we design a GUI to easly control the function. On a 7 inch Touch Screen you can control the function. Additional we added features like a timer to control the function of the camper with timing. Of course, a clock is displayed and the temperature from the inside and outside is calculated.

Conclusions
This project is still just a prototype. For a real implementation, additional functions should be integrated: