Distributed Systems Seminars Seminar II: Smart Environment and Home Automation Systems
Structure of the Seminar 3 Lectures focused on different aspects of Home Automation Systems 30/03/2012 Silvia Bonomi Lecture 1: Smart Environment and related Issues 20/04/2012 Adriano Cerocchi Mario Caruso Lecture 2: Home automation systems 27/04/2012 Adriano Cerocchi Mario Caruso Lecture 3: Case Study
Lecture 1 Smart Environment and Related Issues Introduction to Smart Environment Examples Common points in Smart Environment Design Concurrency Issues Heterogeneity of Resources Finite lifetime
Lecture 2 Introduction to home automation system Home automation system Challenges and future directions Architectures for Home Automation systems actuation layer Relays, Dimmer sensing layer (context awareness) communication layer bus system (I2C, CAN, Ethernet, KNX, EDS) control layer interface layer Buttons touch interfaces etc…
Lecture 3 A real case-study The EDS system How to extend the home automation system implementing the control layer The interface Practical demonstration Discussion