1. HOME AUTOMATION: WEB BASED CONTROL
Anthony Campbell
Eric Poynter
EKU, Dept. of Technology
Computer Electronic Networking

2. INTRODUCTION - Hardware
Microprocessor Interfacing (ISA expansion slot 80’s)
Parallel port (Being phased out)
Fiber Optic Network Interface
USB commonly used

3. INTRODUCTION – Software
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
DotNetNuke – Web Site Framework
Microsoft SQL Database Engine

4. OUTLINE Motivation Hardware Design Software Design Demonstration
Team Work
Results / Conclusion
Q & A

5. MOTIVATION Home automation – Growing trend Connecting to your PC (USB)
Benefits of USB – speed, reliability
Hand held devices – Everyone has one
Home monitoring – Be at home anytime

6. Hardware: Interface Selection
USB – Universal Serial Bus
Introduced in 1995, widely popular since 1998
Major hardware and software support (IBM, Microsoft)
3 technical revisions, backward compatibility
Many other variations in the works

7. Hardware: Electronics Design
USB controller Provides I/O
Limited I/O
Electronic Solution
Number of controllable devices grow exponentially
Controlling Input via a shared bus

8. Software: Device Interaction
Hardware to Software Transition
USB controller - Device Driver
Control Scheme
4 Physical Outputs – Device ID (3), Control Line (1)
8 Physical Inputs
Speed of USB – Real time communication

9. Software: Server Bridge to Device, Software, and Web
Microsoft SQL Express – Database Engine
Web Server – 3 Important Tasks
SQL
Website
USB Interface Program

10. Demonstration
What our Project actually does

11. TEAMWORK Back and forth software/hardware design
Communication – What is possible, What is desired
Troubleshooting/Testing

12. RESULTS / CONCLUSION
Successfully Interfaced with a USB port, via software and hardware
Enabled control of the software over the Internet
Setup several household devices and controlled them remotely with our setup

13. FUTURE WORK Different USB controllers offer greater possibilities
Audience suggestions to
Thanks!