1. Home Automation
ECE 492
Tarek Kaddoura & Jigar Nahar

2. Introduction What is home automation? Motivation
Centralized control of appliances and devices.
Uses the internet to regulate the appliances in a house.
Motivation
Provides ease and comfort
Security and energy efficiency

3. Functional Description
The goal of this project is to successfully interface the USB on the DE2 board with the X10 Home Automation products.
X10 Home Automation system consists of the X10 USB RF Transceiver, X10 Transceiver base and the X10 Appliance modules for each appliance.
This project allows the control of appliances from any web browser enabled device through the use of the X10 products.

4. DE2 Microcontroller Board
Design of the system
User
Website
DE2 Microcontroller Board
X10 USB RF Transceiver
X10 Base
Appliance Module
USB
Wireless
Appliance

5. Components used from the DE2 board
What components are used?
DM9000A: Ethernet controller to connect to the network.
USB type A: Used to interface with the X10 USB RF Transceiver
SDRAM: Memory for the system
Flash: Non-volatile memory to store the web site files and the webserver
EP2C35
Cyclone II
SDRAM
FLASH
ISP 1362
DM9000A
USB Transceiver
Wall Jack
USB Host
RJ45

6. Challenges
The board needed to be overclocked to 100 MHz to achieve a responsive web server
Webserver implemented by Altera is very inefficient
Offloaded most images/scripts into an outside server
Most resource intensive tasks performed on the client-side in JavaScript
Communicating with the USB device

7. DEMO!

8. Thank You
Questions?