Smart Dorms

Team Members

Group Member	Student Number
Askar Serikov	xxx
Daniel Schurholz	xxx
Orsola Fejzo	0528705
Valeria Cedillo	0528695

What is Smart Dorms?

Smart Dorms is a fast and practical technological solution that helps students and the housing companies to adopt a more sustainable behavior. It consists of automated sensors and actuators that can be installed in any student residence, as well as remote control tools that allow the reduction of energy consumption. Additionally, the system has the potential to generate long-term profit for the housing company while having a positive impact on the environment.

Scenario

Edwin leaves his flat early morning every day to go to university and he never checks the thermostat valve level of the radiator. After a long day in the university, he comes back home, goes to his room and turns the lights on to drop his stuff to afterwards go the kitchen to start cooking with his flatmate without turning the lights off again. After a couple of minutes cooking, the kitchen becomes overheated, so they usually open the window to cool down and ventilate the space, but they don’t adjust the temperature of the radiator.

Since the students are usually in a hurry to arrive on time to class, quite often it happens that they leave the lights of the common areas on, or the lights of the rooms. Especially during spring, when there’s more sunlight it’s really common that while they’re getting ready to go to school, they don’t perceive if the light is coming from the window or if the lightbulb is on.

Vision

To automate daily tasks by transforming the daily home routine into more sustainable through practical and easy to implement solutions.

Idea and Motivations

Since the university residences have a fixed amount of rent and do not charge for the consumption of services, the students are not motivated to pay special attention to the use of them, generating high costs and not making conscious use of the electricity.

Features

Accessibility

Portability

Scalability

Solutions

Automatic lights’ control:

The user is able to control remotely with a smartphone and Telegram app.

Motion detector will detect movement in the house to turn on/off lights automatically

Controlled heating

Optimization of the laundry room consumption

Waste management

Smart showering system