Smart Window System

• Waldo Acosta
• Parth Patel
• Arsalan Sheikh
• Edgar Guzman

Smart home features have become a hot topic in the last few years. Many people want to incorporate IoT into their daily lives to help simplify their lives. People desire additional functionality going forward into the technological era. Devices like smart thermostats and doorbells have already been pushed out to the masses, but there is one area of the home that has remained stagnant for far too long. Home windows have not seen innovation in a ludicrously long time.We want to help bring automation to modern smart homes by innovating the traditional vertical, sliding design windows. By introducing and incorporating actuators and various sensors, we want to automate windows or trigger via user input. The sensors can help provide additional safety functionality like carbon monoxide detection and rain damage protection. We already have carbon monoxide alarms in our homes but our automated window takes carbon monoxide poisoning prevention a step further by having the window open, allowing the poisonous gas out. Furthermore, people may leave their windows open one hot summer evening and not realize it and it may begin to rain, so we want to help prevent water damage as well.The system will come equipped with a manual switch/remote for easy functionality. For safety factors, the system will protect homeowners, pets, and children by responding to the presence of an obstacle in the way of the window, preventing any harm. In the unlikely event that the window does close on an object, it should reverse operation. In the final design for our concept smart window, we implemented a single linear actuator to open and close the window itself. We are using an Arduino Mega for our micro controller because it has the number of pin outputs that we need for this project.