Slight coverage of interface design of SMART A/C

  

  INTRODUCTION

In this work, a smart Air Conditioner scheme is proposed and its adaptation to a Smart Home system is presented. Firstly, working principles of conventional Air Conditioner and the proposed smart Air Conditioner are explained and compared. The smart Air Conditioner is developed in order to enable a good general view of the operation of the smart-Air Conditioner and its adaptation to Smart Home. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides a significant savings in electricity bills as well as improving user comfort.

   

  PROBLEM STATEMENT

Today air conditioners are coming with more advanced features. But there are some drawbacks for the people. In this paper we have given some solution for that problem. It is very useful for the users those are not understand the product very well.

   PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

        Smart air conditioners are air conditioners that are connected to the internet and are thereby controllable through your smartphone, both inside your home and outside. It’s just one of the many appliances to join the ‘Internet of things’ – appliances connected to the internet for maximum controllability and convenience. Smart air conditioners afford you that luxury, and it’s an exciting step forward.

   Functionalities and sub functionalities of Smart A/C:

• Smartphone app to access all settings
• Controllable temperature and fan speed settings
• Controllable timer
• Control settings away from home, so you can come home to a frosty house after a day out

Think of it like a remote thermostat. If it’s a stifling-hot day, the last thing you want to do is come home to a hotbox of a house. With remote controllability through your smartphone, you can press a few buttons while still in the office or your workplace, and come home to an adequately-chilled home fine-tuned to your exact specifications.

Not only this, if you forget to turn the air con off before leaving the house, you can just fire up your smartphone and turn it off to prevent nasty electricity bills. So now that you’ve got the basics, you might be interested to see what brands offer smart air conditioners – there are a lot out there!

TARGET CUSTOMERS

·           PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED (particularly blind)

·           SENIOR CITIZENS

LIMITATIONS OF THE PRODUCT

·      In the Smart A/C because of more functionalities (buttons) it is very confused to use for the senior citizens. The product became more complex to use for them.

·      Nowadays A/C’s are coming with small screen displays. It is very difficult for the senior citizens and physically challenged people. Senior citizens people can’t be able to view clearly.

·      For senior citizen they don’t have previous experience using such kind of advanced technology they don’t have much knowledge about the product.

·      For physically challenged people it is impossible to use the product if they lost their hands and eyes.

SOLUTIONS

·      Reduce the functionalities with the same features. It can reduce the memory load of the user. So they don’t need to memory the functionalities of the system. For example testing button is unnecessary feature it can be removed.

·      Detailed design is important for every product. Instead of specifying the feature name in the form of text give in the image form is better. It is very useful for the senior citizen. Suppose they don’t know language with help of image they can understand the features.

·      For physically challenged people they can use their voice to operate the product. Voice sensor is used. They can give instructions for controlling the temperature and etc.

·      Increase the size of the screen.

FUTURE WORK 

   In future we modify the functionalities of the Smart A/C with the additional features using IoT which is very useful for the senior citizens, physically disabled peoples.