You have bee asked by a company to develop a prototype for a low-cost home automation system. This needs to have three types of capability:
- It needs to monitor, log and summarise environmental variables such as temperature and humidity over time.
- It needs to allow the user to set alert thresholds such as if the temperature becomes too low or high.
- There needs to be some form of actuation in response to this data such as opening a window if the temperature becomes too high and the outside temperature is lower.
In order to pick this topic one or more members of your team will need to have access to suitable microcontrollers, sensors and actuators.