zrwaite / homenode

This is the Github Repo for our group's final project in SE101.

Dreem Teem SE101 Project: HomeNode

This is the Github Repo for our group's final project in SE101.

Link to static website: https://zrwaite.github.io/HomeNode/

Team Members:

• Zac Waite : Project Manager and Backend Developer
• Hargun Mujral: Arduino and Data Processing
• Steven Gong: Raspberry Pi Python Developer
• Michael Dennisov: Hardware and Firmware Engineer
• George Shao: Frontend Developer

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Project Description 📋 🏡

Our idea is to create a low-cost smart home system to monitor and control many different factors of home living, automating where possible. We will have a series of hardware modules with arduinos, such as a plant watering module, a motion sensor module, and a module for tracking temperature, humidity, etc. Each module will compile the results, and send them to a central raspberry pi, which will process the data and send it to our API. On the user end, we will have a website that will allow users to monitor the sensors at their home remotely.

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Software Components ⚡

• Arduino C++: Each module will need to pull input data from the sensors, track changes, make output decisions, and send the compiled data to the raspberry pi.
• Raspberry Pi Python: Reads input from all of the arduino modules, compiles the data into different http requests, and sends information to the server.
• Node.js Server: Hosts a server and listens for incoming requests from the raspberry pi to send data to a mongo database, or requests from users to pull information.
• React Website: A visual interface for a user to view information about their smart home, with information pulled from the server.

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Hardware Components 🛠️ 🔌

• Sensor Modules: Pull input data from the sensors, track changes, compile the data and send it to the central raspberry pi.
• Motion Module: Pull input data and determine if motion has been detected, then track, compile and send data.
• Plant Module: Pull input data, determine if the plant needs to be watered, output commands to water the plant, then track, compile and send data.

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Prototype Plan 📆 📓

• Create hardware that can read environmental data and compile it into meaningful info
• Create a central RPi router that can read all the data at once and output it to the server
• Create a server to host all of the post and get endpoints for accessing the home data
• Create a website UI for reading all of the data in an intuitive way.

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Challenges 📚 🚀

• Understanding information from analog and digital sensor data (Parsing what the sensor data means, then reducing large amounts of data)
• Creating python code to read serial data from arduinos asynchronously
• Creating efficient ways to maintain accurate, up to date information without too much electricity or too many online data transfers.
• Creating and printing 3d models for discrete, simple, and functional hardware modules

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Sharing your project

Hi everyone,
just to let you know I'm sharing your project on my Home Automation smart PCB catalog here on GitHub:

Here's the link:
https://github.com/aeonSolutions/PCB-Prototyping-Catalogue/blob/main/Home-Automation/README.md

keep it up!