Title: Interfacing the real world with the VASERcontrol home automation system Speaker: Thomas Stalzer Tue, August 19, 9:45am – 10:30am Video: Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NpDAg5CqQ Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv4BLypbnyE Description The VASERControl home automation platform is an integration system for various home automation protocols integrating lighting, heating, cooling, shades, multimedia, security/alarming, etc. for building logical modules and develop impressive frontends that make it easy to use complex technology. Two outstanding projects which have been realized with this system will be presented in this presentation. First an integration with the Lego Mindstorm robots to solve this year’s Moonbots 2014 - Google Lunar XPrize Lego mindstorms challenge. This will not be our entry to the challenge as Smalltalk is not allowed. However we will demonstrate our alternative coding. The second project is building a more realistic environment system for fish tanks. Bio: Thomas Stalzer has been working with Smalltalk for more than 25 years. He played a major part in several large scale applications defining the architecture and implementing the frameworks needed to ensure the success of these applications. After renovating his home in 2006, he found the need for a powerful platform to integrate various Smarthome systems into one platform.

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makesyourhomesmart

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Smart home
It‘smorethanjust an outletcontrolledbyan App…

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Heating
Climatecontrol
Central
functions
Remote
access
Multiroom
Audio/Video
Media
Access control
Light
Scenes

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Windowcontact
Energysavings
-Turn off A/C
Security
-Trigger alarm
Comfort
-Info on open windows

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1.Easy touse
2.Simple touse
3.Easeofuse
Example–Bedsidecontrolon iPod
The 3 secretkeystoa
successfulSmarthomeproject

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A currentProject…
•House
•1.200 sqmlivingspace
•300 sqmguesthouse
•8 bedroom/ 10 baths
•Wellness, bowling, cinema
•900m RGB LED stripes
•180 groups
•43 Audiozones
•600 lightsin 156 groups
•2 swimmingpools(total 160sqm)

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>50 Projects

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>30 Protocols
KNX/EIB
M-Bus
DMX
Dali
Miele@Home
serve@home
uPnp
Denon
VBus
Revox
irTrans
Dreambox
Digitalstrom
Capi
Growl
SMTP
SNMP
Wake-On-Lan
HTTP
GPIO
Serial
Squeezecenter
Syslog
WebSocket
Ajax
Servlets
Sonos
Stiebel-Eltron
iBeacon
Weather
Underground
SIP
Text-to-speech

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Visualization

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WhySmalltalk?

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Advantage 1: 3-tier architecture
KNX (Lights, Shades)
Multimedia
White goods
Objectmodel
(everythingiscompatible)
Presentation
Service
Model
UI
Platformdatatypes
Independent
datatypes
TCP/IP
RS-232 …

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Advantage 2: Facadeconcept
Server 24/7
(Windows, Linux)
Editor (asneeded)
(Windows)
objid
Real Object
Facade

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Advantage 3: Modeling thereal world
TCP/IP Network
Gateway
IP
Device
Device
VASERControl
Connection
Element
Element

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Advantage 4: Working in thedebugger

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Advantage 5: Remote editing

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Advantage 6: Remote debugging

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Other keyfacts
Technology
-frameworks, patterns, know-how
-„Open-heart“ coding
Stability
Performance
-VM, developmenttime
Distribution
…

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The mostimportantfact
It‘sfun

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Summer project1
Natural Aquarium Lighting

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„Normal“ fishtank lights
•Manual switch
•Timer
•Every dayat exactthesame time
•0% to100% in fractionsofa seconds

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Problems
•Pupilsarefix
•Stress forthefish
•Noseasons
•Notwilight
•Constant colourscheme
•Nomooncycle

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Goals
•Natural environmentforfish
•Betterbreedingresults
•Longerlifespan
•„Makefishhappy“

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Aqua lighting
•RGB(W) Lights
•Simulatedifferent coloursduringday/nighttime
•LinkedwithWeatherWebservice
•Simulateseasons
•Simulatelight levelsdue toclouds

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Someimpressions
Twilight
Midday

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Summer project2
Zen Garden Robot
VASERControl/Lego EV3

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Itall startedwithMoonbots…
Unfortunatelywedidn‘tmakeitintophase2

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InterfacingEV3 withSmalltalk
•PortedJannik Lavals codetoVA/Smalltalk
•CreatedParts forVASERControl
•NowLego EV3 functionalitycanbelinkedtohomeautomationevents

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New challenge
Insteadofa moonrobot…
Implementa ZEN Robot

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Whatwewanttodo
Press
Light switch
Turn on light
(slowly)
(KNX)
Start Music
(uPnp–Sonos)
Start Robot
(Lego EV3 Mindstorm)

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Implementation

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