2. Outline
1.Introduction
2.Objectives of a Smart Home
3.System elements
4.Home automation devices
5.Networking protocols
6.Integration with the Smart Grid
7.Social Awareness
8.Conclusion
9.References
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3. Introduction
Home Automation
A technique to use computer/smartphone and Information Technology in
controlling Home appliances and Home features
‘Smart Home’
Appliances (lighting, heating, air conditioning, TVs, Computers, Audio-Video
systems, Security and camera systems) are capable of communicating with
one another
Controlled remotely by a time schedule from any room or from any location
in the world by phone or internet.
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4. Objectives of Smart Homes
Provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and
security.
Promoting even utilization of electricity
Minimizing energy loss during power consumption.
Increase quality of living, especially of the elderly and the disabled.
Demand Response Management
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5. Examples of Smart home applications:
Automate chores:
• watering lawns
• controlling lights and appliances
such as electric water heater.
Motion sensors:
• turn on floodlights and cameras
outside home
• turn on lights indoors as you walk
from room to room
• create an automatic doorbell
Water sensors:
• to inform of leaking plumbing, while
you’re at home or away for the day
or on vacation
Remotely adjust
thermostat
• thermostat adapts the room
temperature efficiently, e.g., by auto-
scheduling heating according to
arrival and departure times and by
detecting when the users are away
Home surveillance system
• via webcams and the Internet
Set up computer to alert
about storms
• notify by e-mailing or calling cell
phone or pager.
Security
• monitoring doors and windows fire,
smoke, water
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12. Software :
Linux (as a server)
Linux is an open source and free OS. We use Linux OS as a server.
We can customize linux kernel and make work for new devices.
Mister House(Web Interface)
MH is written entirely in Perl. It has a rather strange Object Oriented
method of coding because MH writes some of it's Perl code at
startup. Plenty of examples exist. Mail lists are very friendly and
supportive.
Heyu (Control X10 Devive )
Heyu is a command-line-based program that you can use to control
home’s lights and appliances via X10 devices. It’s written in the C
computer language. It can also be used to store a schedule of
events which it can execute even when not connected to the
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15. Networking & Protocols :
COMMUNICATION
MODES
PROTOCOLS PROS & CONS
POWER LINE
COMMUNICATION
X-10, INSTEON, PLC-
BUS, LonWorks and
HomePlug
Avoids the costs of
additional wiring.
Convenience of the
promisingly seamless
communication
WIRELESS
COMMUNICATION
Bluetooth, ZigBee/IEEE
802.15.4 and Z-wave.
High-degree of mutual
interference. Signal
attenuation, shadowing as
well as multipath effects,
vulnerability to malicious
wireless attacks
15Table 1. Different networking modes
17. Integration of Smart Home with Smart Grid
Emerging feature : Conservation of energy resources
Industrial alliances : AMI vendors and Zigbee Alliance
Promotion of demand response functionality
Integration of low power wireless sensors and control
network technology into Smart Meter
Acting as communicating gateway to home devices
Devices enable calculation of and log usage by all
connected devices
Provides real time energy usage information and hence
support dynamic pricing
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19. Consequence:
Change in energy consumption behaviour: shifting of
loads on the basis of costs and load curves.
This is known as “Demand Response”.
DR is defined as changes in electric usage by end users
◦ Change in price of electricity over time
◦ Incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at
times of high wholesale market prices
◦ When system reliability is jeopardised.
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21. Challenges :
Achieve the harmonization of the data model
Provide abstraction upon the network protocol
Guarantee a suitable connection to the real-time
middleware
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22. Energy awareness through social
comparisons
Assimilation of energy consumption in social networking
sites.
Comparison of energy usage.
Awareness of technologies employed for optimal energy
consumption.
Awareness of importance of saving energy.
‘Social Electricity’.
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24. References
Demand response technology for Smart Grid by Marc Lipski
Smart Home with Automation, IUBAT
“Service-orientation vs. Real-Time:Integrating Smart-Homes
into the Smart-Grid,” Yoseba K. Penya, Cruz E. Borges, Aitor
Pena, and Oihane Kamara Esteban Energy Lab, DeustoTech,
University of Deusto, Bilbao
Y. Penya, J. Garbajosa, M. Ortega, and E. Gonzalez,
“Energos: Integral smart grid management,” in Industrial
Informatics (INDIN), 2011 9th IEEE International Conference
on, july 2011, pp. 727 –732.
Electric Energy Management in the Smart Home:
Perspectives on Enabling Technologies and Consumer
Behaviour.
A Review of Smart Homes—Past, Present, and Future
Muhammad Raisul Alam, Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz and Mohd
Alauddin Mohd Ali, IEEE Transactions on systems, Man,and
Cybernetics-Part C: Applications And Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 6,24