HomeSync Systems,
Inc
Marc Wood
Rob Dees
Daniel Nevin
Problem Situation
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Life is busy!
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Single Parent Family
Two-career Family
One-career Family
Time is a severely constrained resource
Stiff competition for our time
Problem Statement: Design an integrated
human habitat to reduce the amount of time
required to sustain the family and shift the family
focus from maintenance tasks to achieving
desired goals and objectives
Customer Requirements
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Make Life Easy
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Information management
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Improve ease of accomplishing routine tasks
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Meals-menu planning/food inventory
Laundry
Routine Cleaning-vacuum, dust, clean bathrooms
Routine Maintenance-touch up paint, minor repairs
Facilitate healthy living
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Financial planning and management
Calendar planning and management
Inter-household communications
Nutrition
Exercise
Streamline routine processes in order for families
to reallocate time to more important activities
Concept Exploration
Input
Analysis
Information Management
Accomplish Tasks
Concept Exploration
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Subsystem Functions
Receive input
 Store data
 Analyze data
 Conduct inter-system communications
 Display output
 Control/integrate the system
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Derived Requirements
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Critical to system success
Integration of software/hardware
 The software package
 Simplicity of user interface
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Trade-offs
Cost vs. Performance
 Local vs. Remote Data Storage
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Test Plan
Simulate subsystem interactions
 Build and test prototype model(s)
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Beta Testing
 Customer Feedback
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Time and Money Use Cases
The Base Use Case Model
Functional System Design Model
Information:
Routine Inputs
Information:
Initial Preferences
Wellness:
• Food
• Exercise
• Health
Information:
• Time
• Commo
• Finances
System Control
Subsystem
“HUB”
Task “X”:
• Sensor
• Software
Make Life Easy…
(Customer Requirements)
Entertain:
• Audio
• Video
Energy:
Electricity
Looking Forward…BSD!!
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“HUB”-
Looking Forward…BSD!!
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Wellness
Looking Forward…BSD!!
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Information
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Entertainment
Looking Forward…BSD!!
Wireless Rain Sensor
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Task “X”
Air Quality Sensor
“Roomba”