F12: All Your Base are Belong to You

All Your Base are Belong to You

Abstract

The Automated Security system will monitor a home, and trip an if an intruder passes by the sensor by wirelessly sending a signal to the central unit. The system will incorporate several hardware devices, managed by a Web based GUI for easy activation and deactivation of both the alarm and the system

Objects & Introduction

This system will automate your security and home functions for a higher quality of life

Security Thermal Sensor

• Security Thermal Sensor will capture movement and heat from intruders
• Security Thermal Sensor will send an alarm signal to the server after the thermal value reaches a certain threshold
• Alarm Signal from the Security Thermal Sensor will be sent to the server through Wi-Fi communication

Raspberry Pi or Receiving Server (server)

• Server will receive data from the Security Thermal Sensor
• Server will receive alarm signal and be set to an alarm state until it is deactivated

Team Members & Responsibilities

• Christopher Cheng
  • Wi-Fi Hardware and Software Design
• Tyler Gray
  • Raspberry Pi (server) Research and Web UI
• Prateek Grover
  • Thermal Motion Sensor Hardware and Software Design

Schedule

Week Number	Scheduled Items	Actual
1	Identify Team Identify Hardware Acquire Hardware Design Security Sensor Wire Diagram	Done Done Done Done
2	Wire up Security Sensor to the LPC MicroController and read sensor data Have Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi Connectivity Set up communication from MicroController to Hercules using Wi-Fi Module	Done Done Done
3	Connect Server to Security Sensor Slave Module Create Security Sensor Alarm Protocol Establish Communication Between Raspberry Pi and Microcontroller through Wi-Fi	Done Done Done
4	Create Basic UI	Done
5	Integrate UI with the Server Improve UI Functionality	Done In Progress
Week Number	Scheduled Items	Actual

Parts List and Cost

Item Number	Items	Cost
1	Raspberry Pi	$86.54
2	3x RN-XV WiFly Module - Wire Antenna WRL-10822	Total = $104.85 Each = $34.95
3	Infrared Thermometer - MLX90614 SEN-09570	$19.95
Item Number	Items	Cost

Design and Implementation

Hardware Design

Figure 1: Hardware design for I2C Ir Thermal Motion Sensor and UART Wifly

Figure 2: Implementation of Sensor/Wifly Design

Figure 3: Raspberry Pi Hardware

Testing and Technical Challenges

Testing

All the testing of the All Your Base are Belong to You Home automation and security system will be described in this section.

Testing Data of MLX90614 Thermal Sensor

First we must determine that we are gathering all 3 bytes gathered from the I2C read function, and ensure that it can be usable data for a security system. Then determine the distance of the Thermal sensor for the possible use as a motion sensor.

• The change in byte value by waving a hand over the sensor will confirm the functionality of the sensor

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Figure 4: Command Parser Test

Raspberry Pi Communication Test

For the Raspberry Pi, we will use a Linux OS and download a telnet software that is usable by the terminal program.

• First set up a Ad-hoc connection between the Raspberry Pi and the Motion Sensor Module
• Use telnet on a linux terminal to directly connect to the motion sensor module's IP and port for a direct communication
• Using hercules and the linux terminal, type in messages and hit enter on either hercules or the linux terminal to send a message
  • Hercules should send a message to the Linux Terminal
  • The Linux Terminal should send a message to the Hercules terminal

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Figure 5: Wifly UART and Raspberry Pi Communication Test

Testing the Slave Command Parser Function

The slave will be reading all data being transmitted from the website user interface. Once the data is received, the parser function will compare the hex and set global variables or send data depending on the command it has received.

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Figure 6: Command Parser Test

User Interface Communication Test

With the use of a User interface to control the Motion Sensor, we will be using socket programming embedded in a website. The website will act as a user interface to enable to disable the device.

• Enable Button is pressed
  • The sensor will be armed
    • When the sensor is armed, the sensor can go into an alarmed state if there is motion

• Disable Button is pressed
  • The sensor will be disabled
    • Nothing will happen, even is there is motion

• Panic Button is pressed
  • When the sensor is enabled, the sensor will be put into an alarm state and turn on an LED
  • When the sensor is disabled, nothing will happen

Figure 7: Website User Interface

Technical Challenges

In this section, we will describe all the technical challenges that we ran into while building and testing this project.

Infrared Thermometer MLX90614

The sensor would not output data therefore the testing of the network connections between the motion sensor module and the raspberry pi could not be tested.

• Could not continue the utilization of the design and could not test and verify the usability of the MLX90614 Thermal Sensor as a motion sensor.

Determine the Problem

The wrong voltage was being passed into the MLX90614 was determined with the use of a multimeter.

• Requires around 3.3V but was getting voltage under 1V
• While minimum pressure was applied to the GND and V_out pins on the LPC2148 microcontroller, the correct voltage was being sent into the MLX90614.
  • We have determined that the problem was with the LPC2148, the pins were not correctly soldered

Solving the Problem

Once we have determined the problem came from the LPC2148, we decided to re-solder a GND pin and a Voltage Out Pin to ensure that we can capture the full 3.3 Voltage going in and out of the MLX90614 system.

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