1. Distributed Systems Seminars Seminar II: Smart Environment and Home Automation Systems

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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…

5. 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