Live demonstration: MINDS — Meshed and internet networked devices system for smart home: Track selection: Embedded systems

Meshed and Internet Networked Devices System (MINDS) is an Internet-of-Things (IoT) based platform designated for smart home applications. MINDS uses meshed wireless sensor network (WSN) concept to connect and coordinate all of the end-devices (drivers) for home appliances. Theoretically, MINDS can be controlled and monitored by user via smart-phone, anytime and from anywhere. The state-of-the-art of MINDS is started from the efficient data protocol design. It is followed by circuit design for specific drivers, hardware mounting, software programming, testing, and packaging. Target of this research is to propose an efficient and a lightweight system platform for smart home, without major changes on home electrical system. For prototyping purpose, we design several representative functions which cover electronic and mechanical drivers. All of them have been proven to work properly as expected.