Home Automation and Family Finder Mobile Application and Platform

This project will be comprised of exploratory research as well as independent
research with various mobile location based technologies. The first component
of the project will involve working with an existing home automation platform
called iControl (www.icontrol.com). The second component of the project will be
the development of a “Family Finder” mobile application that interacts with the
Guardly platform. Currently. iControl’s home automation system is not aware of
the location of its users. Guardly and Simran’s role will be to integrate some
ambient location proximity based awareness to the iControl system. For
example, when an iControl enabled “OpenHome” notices that one of its users is
within a certain proximity of the home, a notification can be “pushed” to the
user’s device. From there, the user will be given a list of options they can
perform remotely on their home. The list would include such items such as
“Unlock the front door” or “Is anyone else home?”…

Faculty Supervisor:

Eyal de Lara

Student:

Partner:

Guardly Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program: