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Home Control System 2012
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ABSTRACT
We have been constricted to build up a Smart Homer Control System for new housing developer.
As we all know that The Smart Home Control System is the part of the package for the home
owners. The system is functioned in such a way that it is expected to control the assorted devices
in the house and will be having central control keypad, through TCP/IP connections.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to thank lots of people for their support in this assignment. Firstly we would like
to thank our lecturer for her support, compassion, and lastly her supervision on teaching us the
program which was later used to develop this submission.
Individual thanks should be given to our classmates who helped us with their assistance.
We as group members were very co-operating and hardworking; we shared a lot of knowledge
together and had a good experience in making this application.
Lastly, I will finish up by saying that Google and YouTube helped us a lot in learning few
unique techniques which we used to develop this application.


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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................................... 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Features of Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench ........................................................... 4
Advantages of Home Control System ........................................................................................................... 5
REQUIREMENTS OF DEVELOPING LANGUAGE .............................................................................................. 5
System Design ............................................................................................................................................... 6
Protocol Design ............................................................................................................................................. 8
Hardware Sensor/Devices ........................................................................................................................... 14
Critical Evaluation ....................................................................................................................................... 20
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 21
APENDIX ...................................................................................................................................................... 22
Screen Shots: ............................................................................................................................................... 23
Workload matrix: ........................................................................................................................................ 33
Reference .................................................................................................................................................... 33


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INTRODUCTION
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench is different from other traditional
programming languages such as Java and C programming. It is a graphical programming
environment in which the applications are made using graphical notations.Laboratory Virtual
Instrument Engineering can be used on various platforms such as Windows, Mac OS, Linux,
Palm OS, Microsoft Pocket PC and Professional Android platforms, It also has a very elastic
platform.
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench is supported by Virtual Instrument which
basically, is the program running inside Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench,
Virtual Instruction is intended to work on different platformswhich make its transfer very easy
between different operating systems.
Focusing on this project, we have given to develop a Home Control System Application using
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. As the floor plan of the project has
already been provided so we came up with a conclusion to design the home control system with
the same plan. The user will be able to control almost all the device in home remotely.It is very
much possible to develop these systems using Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering
Workbench and without using any traditional codes.The system has been prepared in two main
modules which are Client (Home System Controller) which provides the input interface from the
user and Server (Home Design Plan) which is used to process and give a result as an output to
the user by simulation. The above two explained modules are connected through TCP/IP
networks. Following are the device which can be controlled by the system,
lights
curtains
doors
temperature
alert system
ACs

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Also Video Player and Web Browser will be built-in.
Features of Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench

1. GLOBAL AND LOCAL VARIABLES: -
When the data value needs to be manipulated in several VIS global variable comes in handy.
One of the main advantages of using the global variable is that you only define data type once
only.It can then be read from or written to in multiple Vis. But the use of the global variable is
considered as the poor programming practice as they hide the flow of your application and create
more overhead.
Measurement result is a control being used in this VI.The result of the additionis being passed to
the local variable of Measurement Result. Local variable can also be created by popping up on
an indicator terminal or on a control as well as selecting Local variable from the create submenu.
2. CUSTOMIZING CONTROLS: -
Indicators and control can be saved, reused and also be customized in different VIs, which
allows you to modify the built-in controls and indicators to accommodate your applications.This
section describes the procedure for creating custom controls and type definitions.
3. TYPE DEFINITION: -
A type definition basically allows you to set the data type of a control which can also be saved to
use in other VIs. If you want to the change the data type wants it to reflect in several VIs this
may be very useful. The data type can be control and define from one location in type definition.
When using cluster and enumerated type, Type definition is proven to be very practical. You will
be only needed once to add items to these controls.Default values cannot be updated from a type
denition.
4. ATTRIBUTE NODES: -
Attribute nodes are used for setting and getting attributes of a control or indicator during
program execution. Attribute nodes provides the ability to change the location, appearance and

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other attribute programmatically, also with a remarkable amount of suppleness while designing
and coding your application.
Advantages of Home Control System
Remote access application.
Supports authentication on server side for greater security.
Uses Secure Hash Algorithm to hash users credential data like passwords.
Stores Login details and displays.
REQUIREMENTS OF DEVELOPING LANGUAGE
The figure below shows all the Operating Systems which laboratory virtual instrument
engineering workbench supports:

Two different modules are required in this project to communicate with each other so that
they are controlled remotely; these two modules basically use sockets to communicate. A
socket is a combination of port number and IP address. Client requires servers IP and its port
number for these modules to communicate.To detect any request from the client server with
an IP address and specific port number, the other server is active and always has to be active,
after this; if necessary the other server replies back an output to the client server. By using
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench this task has been successfully
completed. This program is having a good potential of carrying out mathematical calculations
from a very basic level to high level formulas, It also supports Booleans, String and Integers.


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System Design
Server Flow Chart


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Client Flow Chart

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Protocol Design
TCP/IP Communication in LAB VIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument
Engineering Workbench)
TCP/IP also referred as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol allows the users to
communicates and connect over unified networks (network of a network/Internet) and single
networks. TCP/IP is one of those communications which provides friendly user interface to users
that in some way eases the process of connecting and ensuring authentic communication with the
network between two or more systems.
In LABVIEW 2010 to access TCP/IP functions,you have to go under Functions Menu, select
Data Communications and then Protocols, there you will see TCP palette for TCP
communications.
The computer can act either as the client or the server on the same machine with the help of this
communication; it uses the local host IP Address of the machine.
The figure below shows different models of TCP/IP communication:


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1. TCP OPEN CONNECTION

TCP open connection successfully helps the user to establish networks connection with the
address and service name.

Address: it is the address with which you want to establish a connection.
Remote port or service name accept only a numeric or a string input.
Timeout ms: It determines the time, in milliseconds, for the function to write bytes to a device
before the function to completes and return an error.
Error in: checks the error conditions that occurs before this node runs.
Local port: it is the local connection port.
Connection ID out:returns the same value as connection ID.
Error out: have the error information.


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2. TCP write

TCP writes make possible for the user to write data over the TCP network connection.

Connection ID: is a network connection that uniquely identifies the TCP connection.
Data in: contains the data you want to write to the connection
Timeout ms: Its determines the time, in milliseconds, for the function to write bytes to a device
Bytes written: is the number of bytes the VI writes to the connection.


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3. TCP Read

TCP read reads the number of the bytes from a TCP network forwarding the result in data out.

Mode: indicates the behavior of the read operation.
Bytes to read: reads the number of the bytes.
Timeout ms: It determines the time, in milliseconds, for the function to write bytes to a device
Data out: have the data that reads from TCP connection.


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4. TCP close

TCP close closes an existing TCP network connection.


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5. TCP listens

TCP listen creates a listener and for valid connection at the port specified by the user.
It has the following outputs;
Connection ID.
Remote address.
Remote port.
Error out.


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Hardware Sensor/Devices
In order to get the home control system working in real world the following hardware
devices/sensors should be implemented:
1. Sliding doors:-
To make it possible for the user to open/close the doors from the distance the sliding door or
similar door are required. Sliding door because the user may keep the open for a certain periods
of time before it automatically closes.
The opening and the closing function of the sliding doors is motorized by the use of the optical
and motion detection sensors.These sensors are mounted over the automatic door or are
integrated into the door framing from above or the side. Depending on the style of the door or
application the automatic doors can be hung or installed in several ways. The Image below
shows the one of the motors used to automatically open/close the door.
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00iBjtGdKarCbs/Sliding-Door-Mechanism-HH180-.jpg


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http://www.freemanmarine.com/_images/20040520_DualAxisGraphic.jpg

2.CENTRALIZED AIR CONDITION
The user can control the temperature of the house or certain number of rooms from just one or
two controllers by central A/C. The figure below shows how central A/Cs and their controller
look.

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http://www.amana-hac.com/Portals/1/AMN_HowAC.jpg

3. ALARM SYSTEM
To make the alarm system more successful we can execute various numbers of sensors and
devise depending on the user requirement and lifestyle. The number of sensors and devices
implementing can be Intercom, Motion sensors, Siren and strobe lights, duress code, etc.
Moreover, we can also place the sensor like smoke detector to save the house from hazards and
accidents.
The below image show some of the sensors mentioned below:

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http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Smoke-Detector.gif


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http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/var/sciencelearn/storage/images/contexts/just-elemental/sci-
media/images/smoke-detector-operation/174268-1-eng-NZ/Smoke-detector-
operation_full_size_landscape.jpg

4- ELECTRICAL CURTAIN RAILS
Electrical curtain rails are required to make it possible for the user to open or close the curtains
from a remote location. The image below demonstrates exactly how this the electric curtain rails
work.

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http://www.electriccurtain.org/2010/05/goelst-electric-curtain-rail-model-6200/


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Critical Evaluation

1. SECURITY
User convenience and security are the two main aspects while developing this Home Control System, we
have mentioned below the few advantages of using LABVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument
Engineering Workbench)
1. LABVIEW has clear text, proper design and meaningful icons which designate their
purpose.
2. For security purpose SHA1 also known as Secure Hash Algorithm has been used to hash
the password before it is sent to the systems database.
3. All data is legitimate within the sever for security purposes.
2. SYSTEM LIMITATIONS
As we keep going creating this program we discover that LABVIEW has few limitations as well
which are mentioned below:
1. The system cant be executed in real life mechanism as it is the simulation programming
software.
2. It can be fully used by those who have the certain amount of knowledge about the
software.
3. This Home Control System cant be used through internet, for instance lets say a
browser.
3. FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
Several characteristics are supposed to be included and put into action in this home control
system. Few of them are listed below:
1. The Home Control System should have the facility to support access via internet so that
the system can be controlled from a relatively long distance.
2. Audio/video features can be added for user accessibility.
3. Put into action the usage of this application through cellular devices.

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Conclusion

Closing up, our Home Control System software can be regarded as a pleasing product.
Almost all the requirement and tasks of this project has been fulfilled, although there are minor
logic errors.
Update, Read, create and delete the basic database functions are operating perfectly in all
controls such as the lights, curtains, doors, temperature and alert system.
The system has been designed carefully considering security as one of the main criteria. The
use of Graphical User Interface made it very easy for the user to use the system.


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APENDIX
To make it understand for the user, we have provided our user with a step to step guide on how
to use our Home smart control system The step can be diversified into various tabs based on their
functions. Those tabs are Door controls, Lights controls, Curtain controls, Television Controls
and Management Controls. Various other tabs are also found in some tab and they are labeled
according to their functionality to easy the usage of this particular application. Main functions of
these tabs are as follow:-
Tab control
These are two tabs one for ground floor and one for level 1. If you are willing to control Ground
level, Press on the Ground level tab or otherwise you can press on level 1
Door control
Press/tab the switch to unlock the door in the server side.
Press/ tab the switch again to lock the door.
Curtain control
Use the slider to control the size of the curtain closure in the server side. Press/tab the switch for
the auto-slide the curtains
Light Control
Press/ tab the switch to turn on the lights in the server side. Press/tab the switch again to turn it
off
Television control
Tab the appropriate labeled switch to turn in the TV ON/OFF, play, Pause and stop. Choose the
channel using drop down list/ combo box-like control. Use the slider to control the volume of the
television.

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Screen Shots:


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Workload matrix:

***** ***** ***** *****
System Application
Level-0
60% 15% 10% 15%
Level-1
20% 10% 60% 10%
Video
100% - - -
Browser and
Login
100% - - -
Documentation 10% 70% 10% 10%

Reference

Boca Raton. (2001). LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techinques.
Available:http://www.physics.utah.edu/~bergman/3620-
6620/supp/LV_Adv_Prog/2049ch02.pdf. Last accessed 10-Dec-2012.
TCP Listen VI. (-). TCP Listen VI. Available:http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361H-
01/lvcomm/tcp_listen/#Output3. Last accessed 10-Dec-2012.

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