Final Year Project Smart Home System

Question

Hello My name is Dan and I on my final university year. I am thinking about the project that I wanted to do for the final year and would not like to go with something very basic that everyone does like hotel students management systems etc. Instead I had an idea of designing a centralised software for a smart home. I do like this idea but the thing that stands in my way of developing this software is that I will have to test it therefore I'll have to buy or make my software work with some sort of micro controller chip and other hardware. Any ideas on how I could design the smart home system demo it but keep it purely at software level witouth this hardware sensors. Thanks for any ideas

Mahesh Chand · Answer

If you just want to stick with the software may be use existing hardware like Nest and others out there in market and use their API to build the software. https://developer.nest.com/ M any homes these days have smart devices such as thermostats fans lights garage door openers smart washer dryers and so on. How about combining all of them? Most of these products have an IP and sometimes share a common z-wave or other frequencies. Tapping into those and build a single system is a good idea and I can definitely use it :) Good luck!