Smart Home IoT Maker Kit for micro:bit

Scenario example 1: Housing Safety and Security

Safety and Security is an important part of the smart home concept. With help from each sensor installed in the home, it can reduce the chance of getting property damage, and even save a life.

The Security Vanguard Alarm System and Mechanical Password Switch Door prevent the unauthorized person get into home. The Smart Fridge Alert let you save the food before they go bad. The Toilet Water Leakage System will not make your floor soaked in water. Also, the Kitchen Safety Flame Monitoring Alert helps you stop the disaster before your house is on fire.

Scenario example 2: Environmental Health Living

Sustainability is a common topic of smart homes, the idea is to keep Personal Wellness and reduce the waste of energy at the same time.

The Smart Saving Light Bulb will turn off the light when no activity. Automatic Sunlight Detecting Curtain will block the excessive heat from sunlight into the home. The Home Health Data Monitoring will check the environment status and control the fan to reduce waste of electricity. The Smart Digital Morning Clock help the house owner have a good life schedule.

Scenario example 3: Relaxing Home Automation

Automation can bring convenience to the user, it reduces the redundant task in our daily life.

The Mechanical Password Switch Door only required input the correct password, then will open the door for the user. The Smart Saving Light Bulb will turn on and off automatically based on the indoor activity, no need to manually switch it. The Smart Remote Control Music allow you control them with a single radio controller. With Alexa Voice Control Fan you just need to use voice then able to control the fan. The Room Smart Colourful Light Control let user use the Mobile App control the light very easily.

Scenario example 4: Smart Intelligent IOT Home

Make use of the numerous internet resources is the advantage of IoT device, with that smart home can be monitoring and controlling by internet.

The Smart Digital Morning Clock and Home Health Data Monitoring can make a clock which showing useful information, such as current time, temperature, humidity, and IAQ score of home. The Kitchen Safety Flame Monitoring Alert can warning house owner to take action immediately if the home is on fire. The Room Smart Colourful Light App Control allow house owner to control the home light color by the APP on smartphone device. The Alexa Voice Control Fan can use the Amazon Alexa service to perform voice control.

Well Designed House Model

With the cardboard that can be built into a complete house model with extension boards for walls and sensor holders, students can enjoy the convenience of not having to handcraft modules for holding the components and simulating the scenes. Holes and ports on the walls inside the house model also allow room for creativity for students to freely build their dream house.

Real Scenarios to Learn Smart Home

Nowadays, Smart Home is very common and applied to many houses already, it helps humans in living a lot. There are different categories that smart home can help on, such as saving energy, automation, security, personal wellness etc. For instance, smart defense systems help security like doorbells, fire alarm systems help to turn on the buzzer to prevent accidents. For saving energy, it can turn off the LED automatically when no one uses the light for more than 10 mins.

Smart Home IoT Concept Integrated

​IoT is a main technology used in Smart Home. The common applications are the smart door, Amazon alexa voice control, mobile app control on some appliances, smart temperature and humidity sensors. It is common that not many people know what IoT is. Therefore, in the meantime, learning different iot platforms like IFTTT to trigger messages, uploading data to thingspeak, mobile app control is a good way for students to know how technology helps with smart living.

Suitable for Group Projects

This kit is very flexible and allows students to design their smart dream home they want. It is recommended that 2 students form a group, do the discussion, programming, design and presentation. So that, they can present their idea to the class. In the meantime, it can train up the student’s different skill sets like logical thinking, communication skills and group work.