Smart Domotics - Environmental sensing and Automation

Smart Domotics, also known as home automation, refers to the integration of technology and electronic systems for controlling various aspects of a home. The primary goal of Smart Domotics is to enhance the convenience, comfort, security, and energy efficiency of a residence.

These systems typically utilize a combination of hardware, software, and communication technologies to allow for remote monitoring and management of various devices and appliances within a household.

Key components of Smart Domotics often include:

• Smart Devices: These are appliances and systems equipped with internet connectivity and sensors that allow for remote monitoring and control. Examples include smart thermostats, smart lighting, smart security cameras, smart locks, and smart appliances.
• Sensors and Actuators: Various sensors, such as motion detectors, temperature sensors, and light sensors, are used to collect data about the home environment, while actuators are used to control devices based on this data.
• Central Control System: This is the brain of the Smart Domotics setup, often in the form of a centralized hub or a software application. It enables users to monitor and control different devices and systems from a single interface, either through a smartphone, tablet, or computer.
• Integration with Voice Assistants: Many Smart Domotics systems can be integrated with popular voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple's Siri, enabling users to control various home devices using voice commands.
• Energy Management: Smart Domotics often includes energy management solutions that allow users to monitor and control energy consumption within their homes. This can lead to more efficient use of resources and cost savings.
• Security and Surveillance: Smart Domotics can include features such as smart locks, video doorbells, and surveillance cameras that enhance home security and provide remote monitoring capabilities.
• Customization and Personalization: Advanced Smart Domotics systems can learn user preferences over time and automatically adjust settings to create a more personalized and comfortable living environment.

Overall, Smart Domotics is continually evolving and becoming more accessible to the general public, offering a wide range of benefits such as increased convenience, improved energy efficiency, enhanced security, and the potential for cost savings.

Problem Statement -

Home automation is very common project idea. We can build such systems for smart home applications using numerous Embedded (Hardware+Software) platforms. But designing and developing sustainable system with 'challenging and potentially rich hardware' in very subtle/raw approach with bare metal programming is always very inspiring learning experience. Here in my project proposal 'problem statement' or moreover we can say 'the challenge' is to explore and utilize the hardware software capabilities of different things comes with hardware bundles, and build a solution which will more robust, flexible and feasible;

As the theme of the contest implies 'connect things with code!' I want to explore and utilize 'Infineon hardware' to develop a Smart Domotics/Home system using different Sensors, actuators, communication modules and other off-the-shelf modules.

This proposed project solution - will definitely unique than that of existing solution, since I am planning to implement very bare-metal approach. In the sense of interfacing hardware and programming. In this project development is the usefulness is all about sharing different coding experiences with community. As we know when we build any project with new hardware/challenging platform we encounter lot of problems, bugs or logic design challenges. Building projects that connect/interface MCU's development platforms with additional hardware (sensors, actuators, etc.) will create experience libraries that can be publicly reused.

Thank you #Hackster and #Infineon!

Thank you very much @Hackster @Infineon and other Contest Supporters for organizing such amazing contest, "Connect things with code!" and sponsoring and supporting my Idea with Infineon Contest Hardware Bundle includes PSoC™ 6 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit.

• PSoC™ 6 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit: CY8CPROTO-062-4343W. This low-cost hardware platform enables the design and debugging of PSoC™ 6 MCUs. It comes with a CY8CMOD-062-4343W module, industry-leading CAPSENSE™ for touch buttons and slider, on-board debugger/programmer with KitProg3, microSD card interface, 512-Mb Quad-SPI NOR flash, PDM microphone, and a thermistor. It also includes a Murata LBEE5KL1DX module, based on the CYW4343W combo device.
• XMC4200 Platform2Go (This kit has the XMC4200 device with debugger plus CAN, ARDUINO, MikroBUS and Shields2Go form factor)
• XMC1300 Boot Kit. This kit has a microcontroller in TSSOP-38 with 200KB Flash and full peripheral set of XMC1300 series programmable via the Arduino IDE.

Beside all of above main development boards, Debugging Boot kits, prototyping/peripheral interfacing modules. I have also used 2 very interesting sensors.

• S2GO PRESSURE DPS368 : This is a waterproof pressure sensor board in Infineons 2Go form factor to sense barometric pressure and temperature.
• EVAL PASCO2 MINIBOARD (The XENSIV PAS CO2 Mini Board enables the fast prototyping & design of a CO2 sensing application using using Infineon’s CO2 sensor.)