Maestro

1
Maestro
18-549 Embedded Systems Design February 1, 2008

• Gi Jung Park
• Michael Overstreet
• Maladau Mou
• William McHenry

2
Project Review

• Maestro Home Automation System
• Track users automatically
• Maintain environment
• Minimal installation

3
Status Update

• Acquired Hardware
• 2x gumstix (02/08)
• Infrared Sensors/ Emitters (02/18)
• X10 Controller/ Receiver (02/22)
• wifistix (02/22)

4
Status Update

• Assumptions Made
• User unaware of Maestro, not malicious
• Single user
• Two rooms, One door

• Risks Mitigated
• Bluetooth limitations
• Multi-User design

5
Project Status

• Good
• Infrared Sensors
• Motion Detector(not in demo)
• Bluetooth(not in demo)

6
Project Status

• Bad
• X10 Controller/ Receiver
• RFID Tags/Reader
• wifistix

7
Demo Scenario

• Person in room A
• Move to room B through IR sensors
• Light A turns Off
• Light B turns On

8
Future Direction

• Ideally
• Support for multiple users
• Manually-configurable settings(Bluetooth phone
  application)
• Better than Bills house!!!

9
Future Direction

• Challenges
• Working with our X10 hardware
• Implementing the phone application