Project Title: House Monitoring Simulation System
Project Team: Brian Bulson, Colby Hamilton, Theo Hunter, Ross Smith
Executive Summary: Our sponsor, Dr. Dennis Dunn, presented the
problem of developing a Building Monitoring System to control and monitor
devices located throughout a building. For our solution, we are developing
a graphical software application that runs on a controlling personal computer
within a household. The system allows the user to graphically monitor and
control devices throughout their home. The interface was developed in
Visual Basic and employs traditional Microsoft Windows controls and a
tabular navigation system. The software is designed to communicate via the
serial port with the devices and sensors. The scope of this particular
project was to design a functional prototype of the monitoring software that can
communicate with the serial port. For demonstration purposes, we simulate
the devices and sensors with another simulation personal computer.
Simulation software is run on the other computer to simulate a functioning
household. The major areas of study included Visual Basic event-driven
programming, serial port communication, and software usability.
Date: Spring 2002
Faculty Coach: Dr. Dennis Dunn, Computer Engineering Department
Sponsor: Dr. Dennis Dunn
Sample Screen Shot of Kitchen Sensors and Controls