HOBOT: A customizable home management system with a surveillance RoBOT

Author

El-Shafei, Mohammed ; Al Shalati, Adel ; Rehayel, Maher ; Damaj, Issam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., American Univ. of Kuwait, Salmiya, Kuwait

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The HOBOT project is an automation system that allows for control over the equipment in a house, such as, ventilation, lighting, power system, security system, etc. HOBOT is made to be highly flexible and customizable by the user. A surveillance robot and numerous indoor and outdoor options support HOBOT. HOBOT is ubiquitous; users can use smart phones, tablets, laptops and other commuting devices. The system provides a true pervasive computing experience. HOBOT Software is web-enabled and supports several modes of use including the administration of customization and calibration. This paper presents the system organization, architecture, programming application, evaluation and analysis of the proposed system.

Keywords

Internet; building management systems; home automation; mobile computing; robot programming; service robots; smart phones; software architecture; virtual instrumentation; HOBOT project; HOBOT software; calibration administration; commuting devices; customizable home management system; customization administration; laptops; lighting; pervasive computing; power system; programming application; security system; smart phones; surveillance robot; tablets; ventilation; Building Management; Data Acquisition; LabVIEW; Robot; Surveillance; smart Home;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3099-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2014.6901088

Filename

6901088