Smart Home

IT Master Plan For Putrajaya (EID Home Automation System Europe Standard)

1. Introduction
As with the Intelligent Buildings, Smart Homes within Putrajaya must empower the stakeholders
with the opportunities to expend their energies on creative and productive pursuits. In particular,
the Smart Home must enable families to spend more quality time with each others in such
pursuits. The Smart home must provide the residents with more opportunities to choose those
pursuits.

The IT capabilities within each home in Putrajaya must be determined by needs of the
stakeholders for that individuals home. In particulars, the buyers must be able to choose which
capabilities are desirable, based upon personal finances as well as personal preferances. The
developers of the homes must be able to offers a wide range of features to the prospective
buyers as well,enabling more residents to reside in capabilities over time without major
distruption and cost to the buyer or residents.

The Smart Home conpect for Putrajaya enables the buyer or residents to manage their home
more effectively, but also provide greater access to city services to simplify their personal lives.
The Smart Home of Putrajaya takes care of its residents, instead of the residents taking care of
the home. This is the context in which the Smart Home concept for Putrajaya is defined.

2. Definition
A Home that incorporates advanced designs and information technology so that home takes care
of the family rather than the family taking care of the home.

Source : MIMOS Berhad

3. Concept
3.1 Convenience and safety in the Home
By integration and automation of home appliances and equipment, the tenants are in a safer
environment and relieved from routine tasks, such as automation of security and emergency
response.

3.2 Easy access to services

All users of the systems, ie. parents, children, elderly person and disabled persons, can easily
use and configure the home system as well as external services available through the city
networks.
4. IT Model
Major Stakeholders
- Building Owner
- Tenants

Others Stakeholders
- Utilities Providers
- Neighborhood Community
- House Call Services such mail, grocery, delivery and emergency services

Home Automation System is for

- Energy Management ; Lighting & A/C
- Emergency Signaling ; Fire, Medical, etc
- Security ; Physical Security, Computer Security
- Personal Enviroment
- Chore Automation ; Home Appliances

The Home Automation System is connected to the System Center at home using the interfces of
:-
- PC
- Telephone
- Control Panel
- Remote Control
- Smart Card

The Syetmm Center will be connected to the External Linkages by :-

- Automatic Emergency Call
- Teleservices : Telecommuting, E-commerce etc
- On-line Goverment and Utilities Services
- Video Conferencing
- Interactive TV
- Remote Access of Home System

An IT model of Smart Home has 3 parts in general:

- A home automation system + system which is a network of home appliancess
- External linkage which connect the home to others external networks
- Interfeces for stakeholders to access the system
4.1 Components
4.1.1 HAS (Home Automation System)
All system related to the management, control and operation of the home appliances. A System
Center will be essential to integrate the functions of the various home appliances. The Major
areas for HAS will energy management (HVAC and Lighting), safety, security, fire and emergency
response. Others areas may be on Chore Automation and Personal Environment.Major IT
applications include :
- Energy management program which is formulated by the users, such as demand limiting and
time scheduling (after-hour, holidays, time of day, etc.);
- Automatic signaling to emergency services such as fire, police or healthcare services;
- Chore Automation : automation of routine home tasks using electronically controlled home
appliances.

4.1.2 External Linkages

A gateway will be necessary to enable external linkages to access on-line services which will be a
major feature of Putrajaya city. Potential on-line services accessible from the home are:
- Teleservices : home banking, home shopping, interactive TV, telecommuting, distance learning;
- On-line government services : payment of road tax, license, registration, etc.;
- Payment of utilities bills;
- Automatic emergency calls on burglary, fire, health problems;
- Remote access of home system, e.g. from the office;
- Video conferencing and interactive TV.

4.1.3 IT Interfaces
Interfaces for users will need to consider all members of the family such as parents, children,
elderly members, etc., to ensure that it will be easy for everyone to operate and configure the
system. The major interface point is the HAS system center, which may be a PC that operates a
central integration point for HAS and the gateway to the external on-line services.

5. Benefits to Stakeholders
Any family member, young or old, is able to operate sophisticated appliances

When many services are made on-line, home users can access all these services anytime
without leaving the home. adhering to require access controls.

Integration and automation remove the burden of operating the home appliances which are
becoming more affordable and sophisticated. The home takes care of the family instead of been
taken care of by the family.
6. Issues
Home automation is a new technology where no major standard can provide all applications. A
top-down approach in identifying user applications and bottom-up approach in identifying
available technologies will be required in the planning stage.

A market-driven approach to home-building may result in some homes with limited built-in
services.

Installation of cables for HAS network is more cost effective during construction than after
completion. Decision on household applications should be made early

7. Scenario
Hussein loves his house, a home which has been taking care of his family ever since he moved in
two years ago. The home system wakes him up for work, prepares the bath tub and hot coffee,
feeds his pet gold fish, pays his bills right on time, and makes sure that the swimming pool has
the right amount of chlorine all the time. It saves himmoney too.

It also saves lives. The system saved his ailing father one afternoon by calling in emergency
paramedics and notified Hussein who was at work. Hussein does not even mind working at home
half the time, i.e.on telecommuting, when he can enjoy the comfort of his home and yet have all
the access to do shopping and chat with his friend in the next neighborhood.

Life is not too complicated after all if your home there for you.
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