Project Overview- Thingsware- Home Automation

Thingsware is an Home Automation an application which allows you to control all your smart home devices in one place with a simple. Thingsware is designed for gated community with voice control through Zigbee protocol. The Hardware device supports 40 Relay/switches. Home Automation Appplication. Hardware support 40 relay/switches. 40 devices can connect through Hardware. Mobile app will use for communicating with connected devices (i.e, Light, Fan, TV, etc.) The system should support creation of of users, creation of virtual devices, mapping of virtual devices with physical devices, receive telemetry data from physical devices, assign /map devices with users

Project Goal

Goal of this project is to design an intelligent energy monitoring system, which enables users to track energy usage of any device, control and set up routines for home appliances, get notifications for devices left turned on and view a timeline of daily home activity. With Sweet Home, users can getan insight of their electricity, water and gas bills, while they can pay them with one tap.We believe that by developing an app that allows our users to manage and control their devices from anywhere, we will make their experience more desirable, usable and convenient. We will know this to be true when we see these users use this app over the smart device’s partner app.

My Role

I lead a team of 2 designers and and working with one IoT Architect. I executed all facets of interaction design including information-architecture, user task flows, interaction, and prototyping. I and one of other designer conducted interviews, surveys, and design thinking scession with all team member.

The Challenge

The Thingsware home Automation have Admin, Web baased App for Create New Clients & tenants, New Device Onbording. Manual Onbording , Bulk and Device template Onboarding. Create Rules & plugins The Mobile App to integrate data from web baseds application show on User Mobile and Control the Devices.

The Above Requirements states- Reserach, Design thinking/Brain Stroming, Wireframimg a for Web & Mobile based App.

1) Connect Non-IoT based Devices to Smart Home Automation System.
2) Device control via Mobile App, Remote Configuration
3) Energy Monotoring to see the the consumption pattern of each devices with total consumption breakup.
4) Smart home device users need a way to manage and control multiple smart home devices conveniently with their mobile phones.
5) Energy consumption is most imp information. They only tell us
a) How much electricity have used ?
b) How much we have to pay ?
6) Convering "Rule" module scripting to GUI based for Admin user.
7) User Managment to assign rights to Guest or New users.
8) Create Power consumption template based on user power expence value.
9) Ideation and UX for a mobile Home Automation App, focusing on the real-time monitoring device monitoring,Power saving most priortize feature as apart off Homer Automation feature.

The user is looking for Innovative solution to control the unnecessary consumption as a whole or simply guess which devices are heavy users.
Best solution comes to mind might be buying smart home devices which supports 40 relay/switches tp conncet 40 devices with 2.5 kwh load and enable us to control home appliances remotely and reduce the power usage.
But the problem is that the smart home devices only help in controlling and generating automation which does a big favor but is not enough.
There are no data about monthly spendings, estimated bills, and energy usage reduction tips in such devices. However, Home Energy Monitors connect to your circuit breaker. They allow you to track your energy consumption with much finer detail, Put the ax away and cut your energy consumption .

Mobile		Web Admin
Home Appliances Control	Homeowners see a visual report of energy usage to get reading	User Management	Create New User and Tenants
Energy Consumption	Users can easily control gadgets from anywhere	Device Onboarding	Connect Physical Device to Logical Device in IOT Framework for Device Adding/onboarding
Real-time cost tracking	Tracking the cost of energy consumption in real-time will allow users to watch as their electricity consumption and costs increase or decrease.	Create Device Template	Device Template for onboarding similr device in IOT Framework in fastest way
Goals	Users can define energy usage and spending targets to generate and manage the monthly household budgets and avoid unexpected expenses.	Create Rules	Rules are created to do some activites based on telemetry data.
Notifications	Notifications for energy efficiency help to verify spurious utility billing and save more money on monthly bills..	Create Plugins	Pluginsare used to send the notification on the event of failure
Setting Up Routine	Users can create automation with routines, to streamline their lives and also be sure that they’re conserving energy and saving money.

UX Research and Design process

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Research

No Synthesis

Ideation

Prototype

Result

I. Research

To understand how different types of users control (and would control) their smart home devices.The first step was to analyze the competitors and get familiar with the existing Home Energy products, their pros and cons, and user’s reviews.we have also done the physical product reserach, to understand the product — what it is, how it works, and how to install. ue egestas congue

Discovery & Research :
Secondary Research :1 - Research1
Secondary Research :2 - Research2

Primary Research - Mobile App To understand the Demographic of users who currently use and don’t use smart home devices User Questionner is used, helps to create detailed personas.

Survey - Mobile App
We started off the process by creating a survey using google forms to send out to as many people as possible — we did not have an initial target audience as this was discovery exercise to collate quantitative data..