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SweetBox™ - VSCP Room controller
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Version 0.0.1
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About
The SweetBox™ is a domestic home controller that is intended to be installed in selected rooms of an apartment or house. It is a VSCP (Very Simple Control Protocol, http://www.vscp.org) enabled device and can therefore interact with other low end and high end VSCP devices/modules like the ones at the VSCP site sample section . It is possible to remotely control the module in a secure way by use of computer or cellular phone. This requires additional tools or a host computer with VSCP and friends to be installed.
What can the module do?
With the Ethernet port and the TCP/IP protocol it can be configured remotely trough a web interface or with the VSCP protocol. This also allow for configuration by cellular phone or computer etc in a standard way. With the VSCP protocol implemented in the module it can also interact with other VSCP enbled modules, such as other SweetBox™'es in a plug and play fashion.
A RF 2.4GHz interface which carry VSCP over MiWi is also available. This allow the SweetBox™ to control and interact with wireless VSCP modules such as external temperature sensors, radiator controllers, fire alarms etc etc.
CAN bus let the SweetBox™ directly use other low cost CAN enabled VSCP modules.
Ambient Light Sensor can be used to detect if the light is on in a room or if a light need to be turned on because it's dark and someone is entering the room.
IR Receiver allow the SweetBox™ to understand standard remote controls. It can learn keystrokes and then use the IR remote control as a controlling device.
A temperature sensor is built into the SweetBox™. Can be used to sense and control the ambient temperature of the room.
A Humidity sensor is also built in to monitor the humidity.
A CO2 sensor is available on board to detect the air quality in the room which makes it possible to have energy efficient control of the ventilation.
A proximity sensor is built in to detect humans. This can be used to find out if someone is in a room and turn of lights etc if not to save energy. different boxes can interact to see if a human is returning and light again before the human enters the room.
A built in loud siren can be used for alarm conditions.
A built in stereo amplifier and two loudspeakers let the SweetBox™ stream audio books, radio and music from in house internal sources or remote locations.
A built in microphone makes it possible to detect sound in a room and stream or record sound from a room.
Standard NC/NO inputs is available on the SweetBox™ to make it possible to connect standard alarm equipment to it and translate these to VSCP events for full control/detection.
The SweetBox™ is thin and intended to be installed mounted on a wall. The top cover has an array with RGB LED's that can produce dynamic artistic patterns. Its up to the owner if it should be hidden or showed off. A thermostat setting display can by other things be shown by the LED array.
The SweetBox™ can be used as a stand alone control unit after its decision matrix has been programmed. It can equally well be connected with other boxes or computers and servers. As the complete system is plug and play it is very easy to add and link new equipment together. The speaker an the LED array is used for user feed back on local commands/settings.
The WEB interface can be used to configure and setup the SweetBox™
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