From the start, I have designed Smarthab with connectivity. Smarthab uses several forms of connectivity: Bluetooth, Zigbee,e WiFi, RFID, and Internet. And here is what they do:
- Zigbee - Interconnection of low-power devices in a mesh network such as my thermostat or air quality management system.
- Bluetooth - Interconnection of devices that work in a higher power band, such as keyboards, room fobs (controller). to be designed
- RFID - Passive devices, 20cm for fobs and badges, etc.
- WiFi - Connects my cars to my house for updating Music, Phone Numbers, etc. This also lets Tablets, and Laptops on my network, via a RADIUS, Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.
- Internet - Connects to the world wide web, via an OpenBSD Firewall. This firewall only connects via three cables two only with MAC address (Data-In and Data-Out). In this way, nothing looks like it's there ie. just a piece of wire. The third is normally on the motherboard and is used for back-end control.
I will describe how my Smarthab monitoring and control will be accomplished.
On my web server, I have a secure page that displays the current status of my hab. This page has multi-layer gifs so this page is touchable as well as readable. The mechanism basically are three parts
- The web page(s) on the web server.
- The scrape for the web server so you can send the data back to the Smarthab's via the Internet.
- An HTTP data parser to grab the data that you need for the Smarthab's Environmental Server.
