X10 Home Automation, Software Toolkits, Enterprise Integration

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X10 Home Automation,Software Toolkits,Enterprise
Integration

• Presented by Michael LeMay

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Overview of Siemens APOGEE
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Market Share (Hong Kong, 2002)
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X10 Home Automation

• Permits control of A/C loads
• On/Off
• Dim/Brighten
• Status (are you on or off?)
• Requires two-way controller
• Uses digital power-line communication protocol
  with analog carrier wave
• Each system can address 16 house codes and 16
  unit codes
• 256 total units

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X10 Extended Protocol
www.hometoys.com
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Sample Devices - Controllers
CM11A computer interface
Touchscreen controller
EagleEye Motion Detector
(Images from smarthome.com)
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Sample Devices (cont.)
2-way appliance module
Heavy-duty appliance module
Wireless transceiver
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Sample Devices (cont.)
Credit card remote
Ordinary remote
Keychain remote
Wall receptacle
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X10 Video Surveillance
Camera and video receiver
(Images from x10.com)
Robotic camera bases remotes
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X10 Security Systems
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Software Toolkits for X10

• xAP Framework http//www.xapframework.net
• xAP project provides connector for X10 CM11a
  and CM12u serial controllers
• I will add support for USB CM19a controllers
• xPLHal
• Only supports CM11a/CM12u
• LinuxHA http//linuxha.sourceforge.net/
• UNIX-style generic interface to HA equipment
• x10-cm19a My Linux kernel driver for the CM19a
  USB transceiver, provides /dev file interface
  (http//www.lemaymd.com)

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Home Automation Applications

• MisterHouse Open-source Perl app with general
  support for home automation (http//misterhouse.so
  urceforge.net)
• HomeSeer Commercial home automation system
  (http//www.homeseer.com/)
• ZoneMinder Open-source home security application
  with support for X10 and other cameras
• Lots of xAP applications

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ZoneMinder Screenshots
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X10 Competitors

• Control4 http//www.control4.com
• Based on ZigBee wireless protocol
• Easier to configure than X10

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ZigBee Preview
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X10 Competitors (cont.)

• Insteon http//www.smarthome.com
• Combines RF and PLC
• 30x faster than X10
• Introduced June 7, 2004
• UPB Universal Powerline Bus
• 480 bits/sec vs. 60 bits/sec for X10
• 16-bit address space
• More reliable
• Zwave Proprietary, obscure X10 replacement

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Home Automation Middleware

• Amigo http//www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/a
  migo/
• EU-backed project
• Lots of publications, no software
• Presented at Middleware 2005 http//middleware05.
  objectweb.org/

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Other Home Automation Advances

• Echelon NES (LonTalk)
• True Smart Metering
• Seasonal pricing
• Water, gas, and power metering
• Frequency measurements
• Outage detection
• Load profiling
• Demand reduction
• Bi-directional comm.
• IP/PLC/GSM/GPRS/CDMA/PSTN/Broadband

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IntelliGrid Consumer Portal
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Enterprise Integration

• Ideally, the differences between the systems
  weve discussed will not matter in the future
• oBIX is the leading XML standard for connecting
  enterprise systems to BAS networks (OASIS)
• Supports device discovery
• Relies on other web service standards
• Subcommittee devoted to power systems
• No explicit security/privacy standard

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oBIX Object Model
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Enterprise Integration Illustration
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Related Conferences

• BuilConn
• M2M Machine-to-Machine
• GridWise Smart appliances, etc.

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Recommendations

• Consider contributing to oBIX OASIS TC
• Explore important protocols
• ZigBee
• BACNet
• LonWorks/LonMark/LonTalk
• xAP/xPL
• Develop oBIX interface to xAP
• Develop xAP connector for X10 CM19a
• Investigate existing middleware projects

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Related Resources

• Our Wiki (Omid and myself) http//laserspy.homeli
  nux.net/mediawiki
• More links to papers and projects
• Feel free to update with more interesting links
  and topics