Energy Efficient Smart Home Controller

Very often several different devices are used to maintain the temperature of a house or apartment. It can be electric heaters, air conditioners and gas boilers. In connection with the fact, that people can be in different rooms, and the price of electricity varies depending on the time of day, there is a need to optimize temperature control in the premises, taking into account the minimization of energy costs. Most commercially available temperature controllers provide only adjustment in the same room. Therefore, we want to develop a self-organizing network of thermal controllers that can take into account the presence of people in the room, take into account the time of year (outside temperature), the time of day, and so on to optimize energy costs. In addition, this system should be easily integrated into the smart home system to expand further functionality. For example, connecting an infrared LED to the controller adds the ability to centrally control home appliances (TV, media center, etc.) that are in the same room as the controller. Taking into account the fact that each room has its own controller, it is possible to control all the dwelling house devices. If there are other smart devices in the room (curtains, lighting, humidifiers, etc.), our controller will be able to function as an integrator of all smart devices within the room. To simplify management and integration into the existing infrastructure, we propose using the openHAB project.

As a wish to the Cypress developers. We would like to see the CYW20819 module interfaces (I2C, SPI and others) on the external connectors of the CYBT-213043-MESH boards.