Smart Doorbell iOS ApplicationBy: Ilke Uygun Supervisor: Paul BarryDate: 23 / 02 / 2011

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Evolution of the Idea

Mr. Damien Hughes The client, who came up with the idea.

Edmund 4th Year Electrical Eng. Student, working on the hardware side (developing the custom embedded system)

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Brief Description of SmartDoorbellThe purpose of

SmartDoorbell: Provide control to the user, independent of place.Introduce extra security

The project components:Custom hardware embedded to the door iPhone App

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Similar Products in Existence

Eircom Phonewatch

Similar home security & surveillance system.

Viper SmartStart Similar approachApp talking to an embedded system.

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Software Development MethodEvolutionary Prototyping ICONIX Method (subset of Unified Process)

“ Do it once, Do it right! ”

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Work Completed So Far

The Basic Application is implemented and tested properly.

Network Design:

Server / Client model. Sockets used. For communication TCP is implemented.

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SmartDoorbell in action

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Major Technical Challenges

Network Design & Programming

What would I have done different if we go back to September?

Overall state = Satisfactory

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Work Still Have To DoRight now

Injecting sensors to the system. (This time implementing UDP)

Next iterations: Audio communication (Adding microphones

& speakers to the prototype) (UDP)Video communication (Adding IP Cameras to

the prototype) (UDP)Web System to log the operations

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Problems Still To SolveHaven’t started yet but should have? The push notifications

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Technology Options / DiscussionsiOS Development Technologies:

Xcode: The IDE of Apple. (IB for GUI design, Simulator to test)

Objective-C: The mandatory programming language to develop native iOS/ Mac applications. Basically, it is super-set of C.

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Potential ChallengesA major issue is security.

We have to implement our own protocols on top of TCP & UDP to encrypt the streams so that it is protected. A hacker sneaking into user’s cameras can be a big problem. There has to be no gaps in the system.

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Any Questions?

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