Home Automation system for Arjun Raos Home

Introduction
Mr.Arjun Rao is a well known person in Hyderabad, who started his own company named Value Labs in Hyderabad, Mr.Arjun Rao had recently moved to his new residence at jubilee hills, this house is a large and a beautiful building consisting of four floors.

In the ground floor it has parking area, Lobby, Living, Longue, Kitchen, Swimming pool and the garden.

In the first floor it has longue, home theater, covered terrace, east side bedroom, west side bedroom, north side bedroom and stair case.

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In the second floor it has a lobby, puja room, master bedroom, walk-in closet and stair case.

In the third floor it has gym, bath room and sauna room.

Introduction

Completely automated with Preset controls for easy operation of the house, scheduled lighting control for a pleasant look of the house.

Included with an advanced irrigation system with time scheduling etc.

Included with high end visitor management system i.e. biometric door locks and Video door phones etc.

Mr&Mrs Arjun Rao wants this home to be

Included with hi-fi music system with multi zone audio. Completely secured with advanced security system and surveillance, so they can operate and monitor the entire home remotely (using touch panels).

Overview
To fulfill all the above needs the layout of the house is planned as below:

Automation system
The home automation system for this home is designed to have special preset operations, Schedule based operations. The entire home needs an advanced automation with automating Lights, Fans, A/Cs, Drapes, water heaters and TVs etc. All the lighting controls will be provided with dimming operation. Occupancy based lighting control will be provided in every room. The house is surrounded by a garden which will be provided with irrigation system. The swimming pool is automated with pool automation system. Zonal audio system will be provided in every corner of the house The generator is to be given a ON/OFF option

Security system

The home is provided with an advanced security system with door status indicators, glass break sensors, gas leak sensors and smoke sensors etc. The home will be surrounded by an advanced surveillance system with long range night vision cameras. Visitor management system will be provided with video door phone and biometric access control.

Implementation Layout:

LIGHTING

MOOD/DIMMING LIGHTING LIGHTING

MOOD/DIMMI MOTORIZED NG LIGHTING DRAPES

MOTION SENSORMOTION MOTORIZE SENSOR LIGHTING D DRAPES LIGHTING

SPEAKERS SPEAKERS AUTOMATION SYSTEM FINGER PRINT DOORLOCK FINGER PRINT DOORLOCK AUTOMATION SYSTEM AMPLIFIER AMPLIFIER

MULTI-ZONE MULTI-ZONE AUDIO SYSTEM AUDIO SYSTEM (MOTU) (MOTU) ACCESS CONTRO L SYSTEM SERVER

ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

SPEAKER SPEAKERS S

SERVER CLIENT CLIENT

VIDEO DOOR PHONE

VIDEO DOOR PHONE

SECURITY SYSTEM

SECURITY SYSTEM SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (DVR) SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (DVR)

SHUTTLESHUTTLE X50 X50

WIRELESS WIRELESS IPAD IPAD BURGLER ALARM BURGLE SECURITY AUTO R SENSORS DILING ALARM SECURIT SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS Y SENSORS SURVEILLANC E CAMERAS

AUTO DILING

Hardware used and technical specifications

Blaze automation central unit is used for automating the lighting controls. It consists of different gateways which perform different operations.

Blaze automation central unit

Lighting gateway

Security gateway

Surveillance

Blaze designed an advanced lighting gateway which helps the user to operate lighting in his surroundings through a touch panel form anywhere in the world through internet.

The Heart of Arjun Raos home security system is the Blaze advanced security gateway which is one of the worlds best security gateways

The Surveillance is one of the major parts of the Blaze Security system. This consists of long range cameras with night vision and video display with high definition capability

Hardware used and technical specifications

Blaze automation central unit is used for automating the lighting controls. It consists of different gateways which perform different operations.

Blaze automation central unit

Visitor management

Multi-Zone Audio

Client (Touch Panel)

Visitor management system will help you to welcome and manage your incoming and outgoing visitors whether it a residence or corporate office

The perfect digital music system for bars, restaurants, taverns, hotels, even smart homes! Using multiple inexpensive sound cards or mixers with USB inputs, you can have songs playing to multiple systems in different rooms, all at the same time with ease.

Blaze integration with Apple or shuttle will be a perfect combination of content and technology to create the perfect home entertainment system.

Lighting gateway
Lighting controls provide an aesthetic and highly flexible enhancement to your homes decor and also offer the potential for significant energy savings.

Lighting gateway can operate lights, fans, TVs , ACs and heaters etc., which can be operated through the touch panel. Lighting gateway also provides the privilege of scheduling for the lighting control. Occupancy based lighting control: Occupancy based lighting control is carried out using motion sensors. Dimming module: Dimming is used for dimming of the lighting.

Product Name

Blaze System

Automation

Product Model

BAS AD-1000

Control Panels DC 12V/1A Power Supply

Standby Current 35mA

Alarm Current

450mA

Lighting control
Lighting controls provide an aesthetic and highly flexible enhancement to your homes decor and also offer the potential for significant energy savings. The ability to control the amount of light in a room can reflect your style and allow you to enjoy your home to its fullest potential. Varying the amount of light can add beauty and make a small room look open and spacious or a large room appears more intimate and inviting. When considering the lighting options for your home, you have to take into account the types of activities that will occur in each room and the sort of atmosphere that you wish to create for the perfect ambiance.

Occupancy based lighting

Occupancy sensors are indoor lighting controls that detect activities within certain area. They provide convenience by turning lights on automatically when someone enters a room and reduce lighting energy use by turning lights off soon after the last occupant has left the room. This technology also incorporates sensing of natural light to adjust the level of artificial lighting, based on the adequacy of the available natural light. Some types of photo-sensitive controls operate by turning the controlled lights on or off based on natural light levels, while others operate by continuously dimming the controlled lights. A wide variety of technologies are involved to detect occupants and send appropriate signals to area lighting.

Lights dimming control

A/C operation
A/C system used in this home is Toshiba which is integrated with Blaze automation system, through this system we can make the like Switch ON/OFF, Temperature control, Minimum temperature and Maximum temperature options etc. The above figure displays the communication flow of the AC control unit. Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) air conditioning system used in this automation is TCBIFMB640TLE, which is shown below.
Outdoor unit Blaze Server

Variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system module

Outdoor unit

Outdoor unit

Variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system module

Indoor unit

Indoor unit

Indoor unit

Indoor unit

Indoor unit

Indoor unit

Circulator
The Circulator acts as a passive solar water heater by taking the water in the solar water heater tank and, heated by the sun, and shooting it down to the cooler pipe lines for the bath rooms. In the running of hot-water piping on ordinary work the supply lines to fixtures are run as directly as possible to them, the different branches ending at the fixtures. Although the water in the piping is supposed to be hot, it cools very fast under certain conditions, and especially in branches at a distance from the boiler. In many of these branches, particularly those which supply fixtures not in constant use, the hot-water pipe for a considerable distance from the fixture is generally filled with water that is either cold or nearly so. This means that before hot water can be drawn at the fixture, a considerable length of pipe filled with cold water must be drawn off before the water comes hot. Under all circumstances, this is an annoyance to the person using the fixture. So a remedy for this
Hot water coming from the solar heater

Water tank
Circulator
Hot water coming from the solar heater

The circulator will circulate the water in the pipe by mixing up the cool water in the pipelines with the hot water from the heater and forwards hot water when the user needs it

Cool water in the pipelines

Washroom Water pipeline Washroom

Security gateway
Security system is a specialized field dealing with specified requirements of homes in the usage of easy-to-use technologies for the security of residents.

It communicates wirelessly with all the sensors by arming/disarming the sensors and by receiving the status indication from the sensors and sends the updates to the touch panel via Ethernet cable and sends alerts to the users mobile or telephone via GSM
And communicates with the touch panel through an Ethernet port by receiving commands like arm/disarm and sending the updates of the sensors and alerts if any Can communicate with remotes wirelessly by arming certain areas for the user without reaching up to the touch panel

Product Name

Wireless Intruder Alarm System

Product Model

BAS AD-1000

Control Panels DC 12V/1A Power Supply

Standby Current 35mA Alarm Current 450mA

Security Sensors Door Sensors

Door sensors are used to for door status indication i.e. it will indicate whether a door is open or closed.

Smoke Sensors
Smoke sensors are used for the fire or smoke detection and the areas which are located almost in every corner of the house

Button and light indicator to switch ON and OFF

DC Power supply AC power supply

Supply voltage

DC 9V battery and back-up source 110V-240V AC mains power supply DC 12V-30V

Glass break Sensors

These sensors are used to indicate when a glass door is broken. Such sensors are used when a room contains large glass windows

Operation voltage Static current Alarm current Detection range

9~16 volts DC 15mA (12 VDC) 25mA Min 15DB

Security Accessories Hooter

The hooter is connected to the security system which is used to sire the alarm when an emergency occurs

Key fobs
These are used as remotes for operating the security system

Surveillance system
Surveillance system is used for monitoring the surrounding of the home using security night vision cameras. This system majorly consists of two modules 1.DVR 2.Night vision camera.
Blaze Server

Server DVR Client

Camera

DVR
DVR abbreviated as Digital Video Recorder is used to record the video data collected for the In this project we used a 4channel DVR

Camera
Cameras used in this project are Samsung SIR-4150 cameras which are used mainly for night vision

Visitor management System

Visitor management system will help you to welcome and manage your incoming and outgoing visitors whether it a residence or corporate office This system includes: 1.Video Door Phone 2.Biometric Door Lock

Camera

VDP
Calling bell button

Biometric door lock

Video Door Phone

The VDP used in this project is a product of Zavio. The outdoor unit is located at the entrance of the house. The indoor unit is integrated with the touch panel. The visuals taken by the outdoor unit can be viewed from the touch panel. In this VDP system only the video from the VDP will be carried the touch panel, No voice communication will take place.
Client

Motorized gate

Blaze Central unit

Client

Blaze Server VDP

Client

Biometric Door Lock

The door lock used in this project is VIRDI 430FP Fingerprint Authentication Door Lock. This product is a fingerprint recognition digital door lock that is installed at the entrance door. The features of this product are as follows Three way operation with Finger print, Password and emergency keys. Easy locking with a button press. Prank prevention technology. Forced intrusion alarm technology. Access to more than 50 user finger prints.

Multi- Zone Audio System

The perfect digital music system for bars, restaurants, taverns, hotels, even smart homes. Using multiple inexpensive sound cards or mixers with USB inputs, you can have songs playing to multiple systems in different rooms, all at the same time with ease. Low CPU and memory usage, fully multi-threaded, so no skipping. Switch sound outputs on the fly, and more.

Blaze Server PCI Audio card

Audio Mixer

Amplifie r

Amplifier

Zone 1 speakers

Zone 2 speakers

Zone 3 speakers

Zone 4 speakers

PCI Audio Card

The PCI-424 core system is a computer-based hard disk recording system for Mac OS and Windows that offers 24 simultaneous inputs and outputs per Audio Wire cable, expandable to 96 inputs/outputs. A core system consists of a PCI card connected to a standard 19-inch, single-space, rack-mountable audio interface.

24 analog 24-bit/96 kHz inputs and outputs

The 24I/O is a single-space, rack mountable chassis with gold-plated analog audio connectors on its rear panel and level meters on the front. The rear panel has 24 gold-plated, balanced +4dB TRS analog inputs and outputs with 24-bit A/D converters. All inputs and outputs can be accessed simultaneously. Internally, the 24I/O has a 24-bit data path to and from the computer so that all audio data is carried to/from the computer in 24 bits.

Client (Touch Panel)

The touch panel used for Arjun Raos home automation system was Shuttle X50 The Shuttle X50 all-in-one desktop powered by the energy-efficient Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor makes it easy to enjoy music, movies, videos, and even surf the web in style at home or in the office. Its slim, elegant, portable, and features a 15.6 touchscreen display for simple touch operation by finger or stylus pen. Whats more, the stand is convertible so it can be flipped upward for carrying around, or even be removed for mounting on a wall. The possibilities are endless to what you can do with this all-in-one.

Software used and technical specifications

Introduction
The basic UI displays majorly 3 parts MENU BAR: It displays all the menu icons Home, lighting, Fan etc.

LAYOUT: This will display the Page of the menu icon selected
EMERGENCY ICONS: These are the emergency keys on click give the emergency alarm and dialup to the prescribed emergency numbers
MENU BAR

LAYOUT

EMERGENCY ICONS

Introduction
On to the top left corner of the UI an icon is present on clicking this icon it will close the UI (Not the application) temporarily and switch to the desktop On the desktop to its right an icon Back to Automation is present on clicking this icon it will take us back to the Automation UI

TO PC

Operation flow diagram

Once the entire system is initialized the Hardware starts communicating with the touch panel (software) through the Blaze central unit. First it initializes the connection with the automation server If the client is not connected to the server a message connecting to the Automation server appears as soon the as the server is connected the message disappears

Home Page
Home page consists of preset icon , which are used to perform pre defined operations Home page will provide the user to perform is regular activities easily

HOME PAGE ICON

PRESET ICONS

Presets
On clicking a preset icon predefined operations are performed which are a set of operations performed together reducing the strain of the user

Night mode Night mode is a time based preset which works only after 9PM.On clicking this icon it will.

NIGHT MODE

Home theater

On clicking the icon the Home theater preset will be activated which will Roll down the drapes in the home theater. All lights off except a pair of lights at the back of the home theater

HOME THEATER MODE

Swimming pool mode

Swimming pool mode is a schedule based operation, which works only at night. On clicking this icon at night Lights inside the swimming pool will be switched ON. Pair of lights near the swimming pool will be switched ON.

SWIMMING POOL MODE

Gym mode

Gym preset will be a simple one , on selecting this preset

The A/C in the gym room will be switched on

GYM MODE

6PM to 9PM ground floor lights mode This mode is also a time based operation. On selecting this mode

Lighting will be dimmed using low light

1 light will be switched ON in the lobby A pair of lights will be switched ON in the living room and bar cabinet Hanging lights behind the stair case will be switched ON

6PM TO 9PM GROUND FLOOR LIGHTING MODE

After 9PM bedroom preset

On selecting this mode In the ground and the third floor all the lights which are ON will be switched OFF All the lights in the second floor master bed room will be switched OFF except for a pair of lights. All the motion sensors in the bedrooms will be turned OFF.

AFTER 9PM BEDROOM PRESET

Lighting Page
All the lighting operations are performed through this lighting page This lighting page consists of a floor icon bar and the floor layout The floor icon bar consists of the floor icons for selecting the required floor The floor layout displays the floor map of the house to identify and selecting the area of operation easily.
LIGHTING PAGE ICON

FLOOR ICON BAR

FLOOR LAYOUT

Lighting Page
On clicking the home theater in the floor layout, the home theater will be selected and zoomed out displaying the lights in the home theater area. On clicking the lights in the home theater the lights will be switched on and the light icon glows indicating the light is switched NO.

LIGHT ICON

HOME THEATER

Fan Page
All the fan control operations are performed through the fan page This Fan page consists of a floor icon bar and the floor layout The floor icon bar consists of the floor icons for selecting the required floor The floor layout displays the floor map of the house to identify and selecting the area of operation easily.

FAN PAGE ICON

FLOOR ICON BAR

FAN ICON

FLOOR LAYOUT

A/C Page
All the A/C control operations are performed through the A/C page This A/C page consists of a floor icon bar and the floor layout The floor icon bar consists of the floor icons for selecting the required floor On clicking the AC icon an operation window pops up for making the AC operations

A/C PAGE ICON A/C ICON

FLOOR ICON BAR

OPERATION WINDOW

Drapes page
On clicking the Drapes Page icon the Drapes page is displayed This page consists of a Floor icon bar in the left and the Floor layout in the middle
On clicking the Upper arrow in the icon the drape moves upwards and on clicking the lower arrow the drape moves downwards Beside the drape icon a full up/full down icon is present . On clicking the full up icon the Drape completely moves up words and on clicking the full down icon the drape moves down completely

DRAPE ICONS UP/DOWN

DRAPE ICONS FULL UP/FULL DOWN

FLOOR ICON BAR

Multi- Zone Audio system

On clicking the Audio Page icon the Audio Page is displayed This page consists of 4 different blocks Zone, Library, Add Media, Display and Audio Player blocks.

Zone block consists of different zones to select a zone to play an audio track in that particular zone
Library block consists of Audio libraries (Audio books, Albums, Podcasts) from which you want to play your audio track
AUDIO PAGE ICON

ZONE

LIBRARY

Multi- Zone Audio system

Display block contains two displays one in the left shows the audio files in the Library (Audio book, Albums, Podcasts) you have selected. The one in the right displays the Audio tracks from the selected audio files Audio Player will display the Zone name (where the song is being played ) in the top and other player requirements( Play, Pause Stop, Volume, equalizer, effects ) in the middle

DISPLAY AUDIO PLAYER

Multi- Zone Audio system

Add Media is used to add files to the Audio Libraries .On clicking the Add media icon a window appears as shown in the figure which contains 3 icons (Podcasts, Albums, Audio Books) to select in which an Audio track needs to be stored on clicking the cancel icon that will terminate the Add media page

ADD MEDIA

Security page
Below every floor layout two icons are present ARM: On clicking Arm icon the Arm mode is selected activating the security system and all the Sensors in the entire house excepting certain areas with override option VACATION: On clicking vacation icon the vacation mode is selected activating security system and all the sensors without any exceptions

SECURITY PAGE ICON

ARM

VACATION

Alert
After Arming the security system if any intrusion happens the alert signal appears as shown in the figure with the disarm icon at the top of the layout to disarm the alarm. The sensor icons in the figure indicates the concerned sensors and their location at every corner of the house if any sensor is triggered the concerned icon will be visible indicating the sensor has been triggered

DISARM

SENSOR ICONS

Perimeter Security
In this perimeter layout the floor layout is surrounded by an ORANGE colored border with an Orange colored OFF icon in the top indicating the perimeter security is in OFF mode

On clicking the OFF icon the perimeter security (in OFF mode) switches to ON mode and the OFF icon turns to ON icon and the perimeter layout surrounded by the ORANGE border converts to RED border indicating the perimeter security is armed as shown in the figure.

PERIMETER OFF PERIMETER ON ICON

PERIMETER ICON

PERIMETER LAYOUT

Surveillance
On clicking the Surveillance page icon the surveillance page will be opened displaying the Front view this layout displays the videos of the surveillance cameras located at the front side of the house On clicking the side icon the side view will be displayed layout displays 4 video screens with the Side view this layout displays the videos of the surveillance cameras located at the corners of the house

SURVEILLANCE PAGE ICON FRONT VIEW SIDE VIEW

Surveillance
On clicking the irrigation Page icon the Irrigation page is displayed. This page consists of the floor icon bar in the left and the Floor layout in the middle

IRRIGATION PAGE ICON IRRIGATION SYSTEM ON/OFF

Miscellaneous
The miscellaneous page consists of 4 blocks Television, Steam, Others, Power Generator blocks. The user can select the area of operation for Televisions and Steams and on clicking the OFF icon he can switch ON the device.

Others include (Pool heater, Water heater, Dehumidifier, water Circulation) which have a switch OFF timer, where the user can select the time for switching OFF the module.
MISCELLANEOUS PAGE ICON

STEAM BLOCK

OTHER BLOCK

TV BLOCK

POWER GENERATOR BLOCK

Settings Page

On clicking the settings page icon the settings page will be displayed The settings page consists of a settings selection bar in the left and the setting window of the concerned setting icon in the middle The settings bar consists of three icons Security settings, Emergency Contacts, lighting Settings.
SETTINGS PAGE ICON

SELECTION BAR

Security settings
The Setting window of security settings consists 2 blocks as shown in the figure the upper block is Delay Alarm settings block, the lower block is the Change Security Disarm Password. The Delay Alarm Settings block consists of a Security Arm Delay timer to set the delay time to arm the security system .this timer varies from 0 to 180 seconds. The Change security Disarm Password block consists of a block to enter the current password and a block to enter new password and block to conform the password and to its left is the keypad to enter the password.

SECURITY SETTINGS

DELAY ALARM SETTINGS

CHANGE SECURITY PASSWORD

Emergency contacts
The emergency contacts window consists of three blocks. Add dial contacts, Add/Edit emergency contact numbers, Number of rounds to be dialed. Add dial contacts: This windows displays the contact details of the person to whom a call will be rung when in emergency Edit/Add Emergency contact numbers: This window is used to edit the contact detail in the Add dial contact window. Number of rounds to be dialed: It is used to define number of times to ring up to the concern person in emergency

ADD DIAL CONTACTS

EDIT EMERGENCY CONTACTS

EMERGENCY CONTACTS

NUMBER OF ROUNDS TO BE DIALED

Motion sensor Settings

This settings window consists of floor layout with the floor icons in its left The layout displays the Motion sensor icons located at different locations. Indicates the motion sensor is in ON mode.

Indicates the Motion sensor is in OFF mode

MOTION SENSOR OFF MODE ON

MOTION SENSOR SETTINGS

Video Door Phone

When any visitor pres the call button in the outdoor video door phone unit a Video door phone window appears the UI as shown in the figure On clicking the talk icon the conversation with the visitor can be started On clicking the unlock icon the gate can be opened for the visitor to come in On clicking the close icon the visitors call can be ignored

UNLOCK

TALK ICON

CLOSE

Benefits
The Blaze automation central unit is proved to be more beneficiary module for the homes and residences. Blaze designed the automation system to be simple, secure and affordable with its effective R&D so as to enable the end user to understand the system easily.

Blaze automation system can be adopted in already constructed houses.

The software of this system can be integrated with any windows based PC or touch panel extending the users comfort. The user can operate this system from anywhere in the world through internet. This automation system performs multiple functions like automation, security, surveillance, irrigation etc. Frequent upgrading of the audio system will provide the user with the latest audio UI.

Future scope
The blaze automation system in designed in such a way that it can be remodeled easily as per the user requirements. The system has the scope to add more functions/operations as per the future requirement of the user. The system is also compatible to other platforms such as Apple and Android.

The system can also allow the user to operate it through mobile phones, Wi-Fi based iPods , etc.
The system can be upgraded with face recognition technology and voice recognition technology.

Other potential areas of application

Blaze automation system is potentially also used in following fields.

Any residence that requires advanced automation system, sophisticated security with 24hrs monitoring.
Hotels & Restaurants which prefers to provide the customer with advanced automation & security. Residential apartments that deserve remote operations & security monitoring i.e. Building management system. Large commercial/ Business complexes.

Conclusion
Blaze automation system is one of the best and effective security systems presently available in the market. It is simple, easy to handle and cost effective to the potential customers. This system is also adaptable and compatible to other software.