Assignment 2 Option 2 – Home Automation IoT Innovation
In this assignment you will be devising and implementing a home automation IoT innovation.
You are tasked with coming up with “something innovative” using either a commercially
available or do-it-yourself/open-source hardware, software and a home automation platform.
The purpose of this assignment is to expose you to an open-source home automation platform
and/or home automation IoT technologies using an authentic scenario.
Assignment Tasks
Your home automation IoT innovation project could be of one of the following forms:
1) Partially implementing your smart home plan from Assignment 1 using an open-source
home automation platform (such as Home Assistant). To do this, you must make
decisions that balance cost, quality, usability, platform interoperability and end-user
experience. You will be using your own house as a case study and be looking to augment
its existing systems to make it smart. Note that Assignment 2 should build upon
Assignment 1, so you need to ensure consistency (where possible) between your design
plan and your actual implementation.
It is understood that it may not be realistic with budget constraints to fully implement
your proposal from Assignment 1. Therefore, you can make decisions to set up “dummy
sensors and devices” in order to mimic your plan (and where possible use any existing
devices you may have). However, your implementation should be as real as possible and
cover all of the technical concepts of home automation where cost is not a ba
ier to
completing the assignment.
2) Choose from one (or more) facets of home automation (power, water, lighting, security
and safety, HVAC, entertainment/autonomous appliances) and innovate around a
particular aspect. For example, you may:
• Create a custom IoT device that undertakes particular task as part of a home
automation solution;
• Devise a novel configuration of smart home devices to solve a complex task that has
not been appropriately addressed by an off-the-shelf solution;
• Contribute a novel integration, capability, technology or paradigm to an open-source
home automation community; or
• Adapt your 1711ICT project for use in a home automation scenario (provided there is
sufficient complexity and expansion upon your original work),
You should undertake independent research by viewing online tutorials, engaging with open-
source home automation communities/forums and experimenting with your own ideas to
ealise your home automation IoT innovation.
Whichever option above you select, you are encouraged to discuss your idea with the
teaching staff no later than Week 6 and obtain approval to proceed.
Upon completion, you will need to document your home automation IoT innovation project.
This will primarily be in the form of a technical report that addresses:
• The aim/purpose of your innovation.
• Highlight the novelty of your innovation.
• Describe the process/methodology for devising, constructing or implementing your
innovation.
• Demonstrate how your innovation functions in your chosen authentic context.
• Outline any limitations or avenues for future work.
Where relevant provide figures to illustrate your innovation (may include build instructions,
demonstration, user interface), tables/graphs to summarise data or results, code (or significant
code snippets), links to online repositories/video, and/or other evidence to show how you’ve
contributed to the home automation community. In some cases, you may be asked by the
teaching staff to provide a quick demonstration of your project (via Discord or Collaborate).
Your report should be a professional document with a title page, table of contents, clearly
defined sections, labelled figures/tables, and references to authoritative sources.
The report must be at least 2,000 words and the project should be at a standard appropriate
for a third-year course.
Submission Instructions
1. Fill out the Griffith Assignment Cover Page.
2. Compile your report into a single Word document.
3. Name your Word file with the following convention:
lastName_firstName_studentNumber.docx
4. Submit your assignment via the submission link on the course website.
Indicative Marking Scheme (out of 100 points)
(NOTE A COMPREHENSIVE MARKING SCHEME WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE SOON
THAT WILL BE THE AUTHORITATIVE VERSION.)
Project 50 points
• Creative, clearly defined purpose and goals
• Well balanced use of IoT components (sensors, and actuators)
• Usability, interface elements, suitable environment
• Clear, logical and interesting behaviour
• Novelty
Content 20 points
• Purpose and significance to be well exhibited
• Abundance of evidence of critical, careful thought and analysis and/or insight
• Evidence and examples are vivid and specific, while focus remains tight
• Contains no e
ors of fact
• Includes no i
elevant content
Structure 10 points
• Ideas should be logically organized using the formal report writing structure.
• Effective, smooth, and logical transitions
• Conclusions drawn from preceding argument and unambiguously stated
• All supporting work to be referenced and/or footnotes used
Style 10 points
• Uses an informal, personal style that is appropriate and convincing
• Uses vigorous prose containing a high ratio or positive, active ve
s
• Uses clear and logical sentence construction
• Uses fully developed paragraphs with appropriate transitions
• Avoids inappropriate language (including jargon, non-inclusive, or potentially
discriminating language)
Presentation 10 points
• Demonstrates an understanding of presenting content as a report
• Uses an effective typeface and layout, including consistent use of white space
• Is adequately proofread
• Use of Figures/Tables to support the argument
Possible Penalties
Penalty items Possible penalty
Student's name missing 2
Student number missing 2
Title not on front page 2
Pages not numbered 2
Report not dated 2
Sections not given sensible numbers 2
Spelling / Grammar e
ors 2 per e
or
Figures / Tables without captions 1 each
Figures without numbers 1 each
Figures not referenced in text 1 each
Figures not neat 1 each
Equations without numbers or references 1 each
No reference list 4
References not complete
- number, author (year), title, publisher
2
References not referenced in text 2
Insufficient referencing 2
Microsoft Word - Sample Assignment 2.docx
Page 1
ASSIGNMENT 2
HOME AUTOMATION IOT INNOVATION
HOME ASSISTANT IMPLEMENTATION
Student Name
sNumber
28/09/21
Page 2
Table of Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX3
Aim of the Innovation ........................................................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX4
Novelty of the Innovation .................................................................................................. XXXXXXXXXX4
Process/Methodology of the Innovation .......................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX5
Demonstration for Innovation Functions .......................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX8
Limitations/Avenues for future work .............................................................................. XXXXXXXXXX11
Conclusion ................................................................................