Interfacing the real world with the VASERcontrol home automation system
- 1. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved makesyourhomesmart
- 2. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Smart home It‘smorethanjust an outletcontrolledbyan App…
- 3. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Heating Climatecontrol Central functions Remote access Multiroom Audio/Video Media Access control Light Scenes
- 4. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Windowcontact Energysavings -Turn off A/C Security -Trigger alarm Comfort -Info on open windows
- 5. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved 1.Easy touse 2.Simple touse 3.Easeofuse Example–Bedsidecontrolon iPod The 3 secretkeystoa successfulSmarthomeproject
- 6. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved 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)
- 7. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved >50 Projects
- 8. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved >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
- 9. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Visualization
- 10. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved WhySmalltalk?
- 11. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 1: 3-tier architecture KNX (Lights, Shades) Multimedia White goods Objectmodel (everythingiscompatible) Presentation Service Model UI Platformdatatypes Independent datatypes TCP/IP RS-232 …
- 12. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 2: Facadeconcept Server 24/7 (Windows, Linux) Editor (asneeded) (Windows) objid Real Object Facade
- 13. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 3: Modeling thereal world TCP/IP Network Gateway IP Device Device VASERControl Connection Element Element
- 14. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 4: Working in thedebugger
- 15. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 5: Remote editing
- 16. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Advantage 6: Remote debugging
- 17. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Other keyfacts Technology -frameworks, patterns, know-how -„Open-heart“ coding Stability Performance -VM, developmenttime Distribution …
- 18. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved The mostimportantfact It‘sfun
- 19. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Summer project1 Natural Aquarium Lighting
- 20. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved „Normal“ fishtank lights •Manual switch •Timer •Every dayat exactthesame time •0% to100% in fractionsofa seconds
- 21. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Problems •Pupilsarefix •Stress forthefish •Noseasons •Notwilight •Constant colourscheme •Nomooncycle
- 22. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Goals •Natural environmentforfish •Betterbreedingresults •Longerlifespan •„Makefishhappy“
- 23. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Aqua lighting •RGB(W) Lights •Simulatedifferent coloursduringday/nighttime •LinkedwithWeatherWebservice •Simulateseasons •Simulatelight levelsdue toclouds
- 24. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Someimpressions Twilight Midday
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- 27. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Summer project2 Zen Garden Robot VASERControl/Lego EV3
- 28. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Itall startedwithMoonbots… Unfortunatelywedidn‘tmakeitintophase2
- 29. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved InterfacingEV3 withSmalltalk •PortedJannik Lavals codetoVA/Smalltalk •CreatedParts forVASERControl •NowLego EV3 functionalitycanbelinkedtohomeautomationevents
- 30. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved New challenge Insteadofa moonrobot… Implementa ZEN Robot
- 31. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Whatwewanttodo Press Light switch Turn on light (slowly) (KNX) Start Music (uPnp–Sonos) Start Robot (Lego EV3 Mindstorm)
- 32. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Implementation
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- 34. © 2009-2014, Natural Software Services SL -All rightsreserved Natural Software Services SL Juan XXIII No.9 E-07141 Sa Cabaneta Tel: +34 971 603676 eMail: thomas.stalzer@natural-software.eu