Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Windowsill System Using Smart Handheld Device and Fuzzy Microcontroller
Department of Electrical Engineering, St. John’s University, No. 499, Sec. 4, Tam King Rd., Tamsui Dist., New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan
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Sensors 2017, 17(4), 830; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040830
Received: 28 February 2017
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Revised: 4 April 2017
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Accepted: 7 April 2017
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Published: 11 April 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Home Automation and Security)
With the advance of science and technology, people have a desire for convenient and comfortable living. Creating comfortable and healthy indoor environments is a major consideration for designing smart homes. As handheld devices become increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, this paper proposes an innovative use of smart handheld devices (SHD), using MIT App Inventor and fuzzy control, to perform the real-time monitoring and smart control of the designed intelligent windowsill system (IWS) in a smart home. A compact weather station that consists of environment sensors was constructed in the IWS for measuring of indoor illuminance, temperature-humidity, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and outdoor rain and wind direction. According to the measured environment information, the proposed system can automatically send a command to a fuzzy microcontroller performed by Arduino UNO to fully or partly open the electric curtain and electric window for adapting to climate changes in the indoor and outdoor environment. Moreover, the IWS can automatically close windows for rain splashing on the window. The presented novel control method for the windowsill not only expands the SHD applications, but greatly enhances convenience to users. To validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the IWS, a laboratory prototype was built and confirmed experimentally.
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Keywords:
intelligent windowsill; smart handheld devices; environment sensors; fuzzy microcontroller; Arduino
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Wang, J.-M.; Yang, M.-T.; Chen, P.-L. Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Windowsill System Using Smart Handheld Device and Fuzzy Microcontroller. Sensors 2017, 17, 830. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040830
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Wang J-M, Yang M-T, Chen P-L. Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Windowsill System Using Smart Handheld Device and Fuzzy Microcontroller. Sensors. 2017; 17(4):830. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040830
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Jing-Min, Ming-Ta Yang, and Po-Lin Chen. 2017. "Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Windowsill System Using Smart Handheld Device and Fuzzy Microcontroller" Sensors 17, no. 4: 830. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17040830
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