011 Home Management System
Submitted by admin on Wed, 18/03/2009 - 13:22
| Name |
Home device and information management appliance. |
| Short Description |
- Integration of devices throughout the home via a single device which would serve information internally as well as to external home services providers.
- Take advantage of emerging high speed and high bandwidth wireless technologies.
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What problem is
being solved? |
- Health and Safety monitoring for the occupants: Elderly, Infirm, Disabled, Children, People recovering from illness.
- Entertainment: Home media management; Multi-point entertainment content delivery.
- Utilities (environment & costs): active smart metering to enable demand/usage/tariff management and sale of surplus energy (solar, waste heat recovery, small-scale biomass, terrestrial heat pump etc.)
- Home Security: Sensor network integration; IP based surveillance; Remote control of home security access and vision; Alarm management and decision support.
- Home education and home office use of general purpose high bandwidth wireless LAN in the home and its interconnection with the internet. (Question: should this be a separate home network and connection to the internet?).
- Home inventory accounting & monitoring (e.g. RFID chips on consumables, and valuable assets – presence / absence / stock levels).
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| Skills Required |
- Needs a collaborative development team.
- High Embedded Systems Content. Interfaces for:
- Cyber security.
- Household Appliance ON/OFF/SCHEDULED control.
- Information Server appliance.
- Entertainment appliances & interactivity.
- Individual device interface & integration.
- Networkable utilities sensors on individual appliances for control of energy consumption.
- Home Security.
- Health and Safety.
- DSRC, wireless and cable LAN within the home.
- Interfacing to back-end systems via WAN.
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Target and
End Market |
- Domestic Residential.
- Potential export, particularly in SE Asia.
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| Time Frame |
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| 'Champion' |
Name: The Warren Centre - Tony Strasser (SKM), Nick Fondas (iTech Corporation)
Company: The Warren Centre www.warren.usyd.edu.au |
Relevant Grant(s)
(if known and if applicable) |
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| Commercialisation Considerations (if known) |
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| Key issue / comment |
- Internationally popular subject and consequently time is of the essence.
- There may be overall efficiencies if the energy consumption could be managed across a group of residences as opposed to an individual residence.
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