1. Gi Jung Park Michael Overstreet Maladau Mou William McHenry
Embedded Systems Design
February 1, 2008
Gi Jung Park
Michael Overstreet
Maladau Mou
William McHenry
Maestro

2. Project Review Maestro Home Automation System
Track users automatically
Maintain environment
Minimal installation

3. Status Update Acquired Hardware 2x gumstix (02/08)
Infrared Sensors/ Emitters (02/18)
X10 Controller/ Receiver (02/22)
wifistix (02/22)

4. Status Update Assumptions Made User unaware of Maestro, not malicious
Single user
Two rooms, One door
Risks Mitigated
Bluetooth limitations
Multi-User design

5. Project Status Good Infrared Sensors Motion Detector (not in demo)
Bluetooth (not in demo)

6. Project Status
Bad
X10 Controller/ Receiver
RFID Tags/Reader
wifistix

7. Demo Scenario Person in room A Move to room B through IR sensors
Light A turns Off
Light B turns On

8. Future Direction Ideally… Support for multiple users
Manually-configurable settings (Bluetooth phone application)
Better than Bill’s house!!!

9. Future Direction Challenges: Working with our X10 hardware
Implementing the phone application