ECE497 Project Home Control System

Team members: Boyu Zhang, Bo Pang, (List all the team members here with link to their eLinux User page. Use my format.)

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Score: 10/100

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Executive Summary
During an era of IoT(Internet of things). We thinks it is a good idea to use Beaglebone green (which works better with Grove sensors comparing to Beaglebone black)to build a home control system.

Currently, We have connected 3 Grove sensors (temperature sensor,air quality sensor and light sensor) to the Beaglebone, so that our Beaglebone can read temperature, air quality, and light intensity of its environment. We also implemented a web server base on the Work of Kervin-Lee to display all the sensor data on a webpage. Using Grove relays, We figured out how to use Beaglebone to turn on/off of a cooling pad and a heating pad which simulates controlling the cooler and heater in a house, so user now can control cooler and heater in the home remotely on a webpage. They can also set target temperature and let the Beaglebone control cooler and heater automatically.

Fortunately, we finished all our set tasks for this project before last week of this term, so there is no feature that is not working. There only problem we encountered with was when we booted the Beaglebone and run our program, the light intensity data got from the light sensor would always be 0. However, if we rerun the our program, the light sensor worked fine again.

Overall, the project is in good shape right now. Really thanks to all the demo codes that Grove Wiki provides to us. We learned a lot when making different sensors works and trying to write a web server on the beaglebone. This is a meaningful project.

Packaging
Cape and Wiring Because we have 7 Grove devices that needed to connect to Beaglebone (Grove devices name, number of devices used and used port on beaglebone are shown in the following table), so we chose to use a Grove Base Cape for Beaglebone for connection. The picture on the right shows the wiring of our system.

Cooling and heating system

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