The Crescent Lab: A smart home lab for students

Burnell, Lisa J.; Sánchez, Alejandro; Priest, John W.; Hannon, Charles

doi:10.1109/enc.2006.33

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“…More and more research groups are working on this domain, such as MIT, Siemens, Cisco, IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, etc. In these groups, nearly 20 home labs have been set 1–3. These labs not an education sets.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When the smart systems are analyzed, it is seen that all the systems consist of a main control box, a control panel, various detectors, device controllers, and remote controllers 1–11. The control panel which is in sizes of an average book is located at the doorway of the house.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Any process of knowing and learning begins with the individual; this is the position taken by constructivist educators. It is necessary to present educational materials to the students in both a useful and an appealing manner 2. The education system in here, has been evaluated in terms of the systems that smart home have such as electric, water, heating, air conditioning, security, fire protection, building access control, illumination control, computer networks, TV and satellite signal distribution, CO measurement systems, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Education set design for smart home applications

Yılmaz

2011

Comp Applic In Engineering

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Along with the increasing number of smart home applications, the need for the education of those systems has been unavoidable. Smart homes are a building and occupy large area. It has a lot of special control systems, communication systems and wiring. Thus, education of smart home systems requires special laboratories. At the places where special laboratories do not exist, the education is carried on theoretically. This is a problem. To achieve good smart home education a close collaboration between practice and theory is required. In this study, it has been tried to make an approach to the problem. So, the education set has been developed for better education than only theoretical education. ß

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Education set design for smart home applications

Yılmaz

2011

Comp Applic In Engineering

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“…There is a very interesting potential market for HA systems. More and more international research groups are working on this domain 2–4.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it would be very useful to have a platform‐independent tool that allows students to implement HA applications using domain concepts and without being restricted by any specific technology. It is necessary to present educational materials to the students in both a useful and an appealing manner 3. Accordingly the academic effort would be able to concentrate on learning the concepts and the logic necessary to implement the applications, thereby avoiding the complexities added by each specific technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

A tool for facilitating the teaching of smart home applications

Jiménez

Sánchez

Rosique

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Comp Applic In Engineering

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This article presents a new tool that can be used to improve the teaching methods of smart home systems development. The main contribution of this tool is that it allows stakeholders to develop home automation (HA) systems using platform-independent graphical elements. Teachers can use this tool to introduce the development of smart home applications and to demonstrate concepts and theories pertaining to this domain. In addition, students can use the tool as an autonomous-learning environment. From the students' point of view, the development of a new system starts with the use of a smart home-specific graphical language, instead of using platformdependent tools. The article is not only concerned with the description of the tool but also with the methodology to be followed by teachers and students. An example of use is also included illustrating the usefulness of the tool in engineering education. In order to evaluate the benefits of the approach, we conducted a survey amongst students who used the tool. The analysis of the outcome of this survey shows the chance to enable the development of HA applications with improved usability quality factors.

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