A-Team
Team members:
- Aden Abdillahi
- Kevin Cooke
- Peter Larson
- Andreas Rugloski
- Ben Verstegen
Our team will design a Home Central Control Unit. The unit will be capable of many tasks which can be controlled from either computer or telephone. Each unit will have an identification number and password to ensure only an authorized user controls the appropriate unit. As a minimum, the unit will be capable of reporting the status of these items: thermostat, lights, appliance (coffee maker), infrared controlled electronics, and possibly garage doors.
Once the user knows the status of the desired item, he will have the option of changing it. For a thermostat, the user will be able to change the temperature using the number pad on the cell phone or computer. For the other items, the user will be able to turn them on or off. We may try to make certain functions available for infrared control of electronic devices such as volume control. We wish to make this unit compact so that it could potentially be used in a house and not be obvious because of its size. Possible additions to the project, if time allows, would be alerts that the system sends to the user such as flood warnings or motion detections.