No SHUT Eye – CSE Senior Design

Team Name

No SHUT Eye

Timeline

Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Students

Atafo Abure
Dung (David) Nguyen
Deion Nwaefulu
Aditya Rajguru
Haris Qureshi

Sponsor

Frank Groenteman

Abstract

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Background

The staff and patient time is valuable, currently staff has to spend that precious time on tasks such as opening and closing shutters, changing trash, cleaning floors, and more yet to be automated task. Our goal is to automate all of the tasks listed one day, but the journey of a thousand steps starts with the first, we’ll start with automating the shutters for today. We are aware our idea has been done before, but what we plan on doing differently than our predecessors is making an affordable smart shutter. Currently the motorized shutters go for $30 and some $17( for a limited time only) while our rendition will sell for only $20, they will also connect to your phone through an app on IOS/Android for 100% control, and it can follow a user set schedule. Our sponsor Mr. Groenteman has noticed there are areas of optimization in nursing homes and assisted living. He also noticed the benefits of using smart devices on a day to day bases first hand. One of the smart devices he has is the nest smart thermometer this allows him to control his home’s heating and cooling from anywhere around the world, this helps him to save more money which in turn helps the environment. Frankly, it’s hard to disagree with all the benefits of having a smarter home.

Project Requirements

The highest priority project requirements include the following

Cost $20 – This is the overall cost for customers, cost of production + profit should equal $20 or less
Bluetooth and Wifi control – The smart shutters should be able to connect to users by Bluetooth for local connectivity and Wifi for remote connectivity
Simple Set up – The set up time should take no longer the 5 – 10 minuets for all types of users
Accept inputs – Shutters should be able to take input from users directly on the mobile application or follow the adjustable schedule
100% User Adjustable – Shutters will open to a particular position requested by users
Mobile application – Shutters will interact with the mobile application by taking requests and sending current battery level to users
Battery Powered – Overall system power will be provided by batteries that users can change

System Overview

The overall structure of our system, includes three systems. Those systems are the application layer, the hub layer, and the shutter layer. The application will interact with the shutters by either using the hub to control the shutters or by directly connecting to the shutters over bluetooth and controlling the shutters from there.

Results

Here is a demonstration of our product working as one entire system. We used a test shutter that we made to show the device moving, but the actual shutters will only move to the desired position and stop moving once it gets to that angle.