[Pi IoT] Smart Competition Home #2: The plan

3 Jun 2016

In the introduction of this project, only a brief idea was presented: a smart home which also includes a competition system to get its residents involved. There was also a discussion of the communication among some devices and function that can/should be included, but not much planning or specifics were provided. What is the smart home going to consist of? When do we start having a competition system and how far we go with the games? Is there even enough time in 14 weeks to do so? With this entry, I will try to break the general project into functional blocks.

At the end, there is a tentative schedule: it never hurts to have some timeline to look back to and discover how far from these tentative deadlines I am

Well, lets get to it!

Work & Milestones

We can divide the whole projects in two main sub systems: smart home and competition system. The intention is to build the competition system as a main feature in the whole smart home.

(NOTE: More details on software installed/ coded and hardware designed/connected will be provided at each stage).

SMART HOME

Basics
Function	Devices	How to
Connectivity setup: MQTT	Raspberry Pi 3 Raspberry Pi 1 Smartphone	Broker installed in Raspberry Pi 3 Publisher client in Raspberry Pi 1 Subscriber client in smartphone Subscriber client in Raspberry Pi 3
Sensors reading	Sensors type 1: - TMP006 MPL3115A2MPL3115A2 - Gas detector	I2C protocol – connect to the corresponding Raspberry Pi 1 I2C ports
	Sensors type 2: - Door switch - Alarm button	Direct connection to Raspberry Pi 1 GPIO ports
	Raspberry Pi 1	Reads GPIO ports Implements MQTT publisher client -> sends data to Raspi 3
	Raspberry Pi 3	Implements MQTT broker
Data storage	Raspberry Pi 3	Implements MQTT subscriber client -> read data from Raspi 1 MySQL database to store data
GUI – general home access	Raspberry Pi 3	Same MQTT subscriber client Displays read data
Mobile app – individual home access		Implements MQTT subscriber client -> read data from Raspi 1 Displays info
Web portal – remote access	Raspberry Pi 3	TBA
Extra 1: Announcement board
Function	Devices	How to
User sets - Task - Announcement	Raspberry Pi 3	Include a menu to input: Notes Task that should be finished within a deadline (i.e. cleaning)
Data storage	Raspberry Pi 3	Database
Display task/announcements	Raspberry Pi 3	Update main GUI to include an “Announcements” tab

COMPETITION SYSTEM

Basic: Run competition
Function	Devices	How to
Record user’s run distance	Android smart phone	Mobile app. 1) record run distance with either: - Use maps framework: get miles - Count steps/use phone gyroscope 2) send distance to smart home - Send to home server IP address
Data storage	Raspberry Pi 3	Implement home server – Apache Create PHP interface to fetch data coming from phone Store data in smart home database - MySQL
Display data	Raspberry Pi 3	Update home GUI: - Individual data - General table with best results
Extra 1: Tourist/Discovery system
Function	Devices	How to
New destination selection	Raspberry Pi 3	Select a reasonable location to visit Display it on the home GUI Allow remote access to the selected location
Mobile app- geo location	Android smartphone	Update mobile app: - Map frame work to detect person’s location - Read new location from Raspi 3 - Send when the person gets to that location
Extra 2: Smart house inner challenges
TBA

Schedule

1-2 Weeks (Monday) 23 May 2016 – 5 June 2016

Application
Initial set up and planning
Build “Basic smart house” I
- Connectivity setup
- Sensors reading
- Simple Interface

3-4 Weeks (Monday) 6 June 2016 – 19 June 2016

Build “Basic smart house” II
- Data storage
- Mobile App
- Improved GUI
- Web portal
Build Basic run competition I
- Raspi 3 server

5-6 Weeks (Monday)20 June 2016 – 3 July 2016

Build Basic run competition II
- Mobile app
Test run competition I
- Distance calculations
- Mobile to server communication
Raspi 3 GUI updated

7-8 Weeks (Monday) 4 July 2016 – 17 July 2016

Extra 1 – discovery/tourist competition

9 – 10 Weeks (Monday) 18 July 2016 – 31 July 2016

Extra 1 – announcement board

11- 12 Weeks (Monday)1 August 2016 – 14 August

Extra 2 – smart house inner challenges

13-14 Weeks (Monday) 15 August 2016 – 28 August

Clean up: final modifications
Prepare project submission

(Monday) 29 August 2016 - Project submission

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rhe123 over 8 years ago

I don't know how many of the future competitors are also using other sports apps like Runkeep and Strava, but it might be nice to involve activity there as well. An interesting project for that might be Tapiriik (Github), which is able to sync activities between a lot of those services, you could add your home server to this.
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clazarom over 8 years ago in reply to rhe123

An interesting project Tapiriik! It is definitely easier for the user (well, developer too) to sync the sport app already in use. Thanks for the suggestion.
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clazarom over 8 years ago in reply to rhe123

An interesting project Tapiriik! It is definitely easier for the user (well, developer too) to sync the sport app already in use. Thanks for the suggestion.
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