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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
Successful Residential Sensing
Deployments
Timothy W. Hnat, Vijay Shrinivasan,
Jiakang Lu, Tamim I. Sookoor, Raymond
Dawson, John Stankovic, and
Kamin Whitehouse
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Sensing in Homes
Medical
Monitoring
Home
Automation
Energy
Management
People spend 65% of time in their homes
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Sensing in Homes
Extreme Environments
Indoors is hard too!
Photo courtesy of: Jan Beutel
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Sensing in Homes
Difficulty
1200 sensors
Over 20 homes
Up to 1 year/home
#Sensors
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Sensing in Homes
Difficulty
1200 sensors
Over 20 homes
Up to 1 year/home
#Sensors
#Homes
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Sensing in Homes
Difficulty
1200 sensors
Over 20 homes
Up to 1 year/home
#Sensors
#Homes
#Days
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Outline
Deployment Overview
Reliability and Failure Analysis
A Hitchhiker’s Guide
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Deployments Overview
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Deployments Overview
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Deployments Overview
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Deployment
# Homes
Weeks
Motion
Object Use
Door Heights
Wearable
Tracking
Light Switch
Power (Plugs)
Power
(Circuits)
Power (Mains)
Water Mains
Custom
Thermostat
Active Register
Light/Temp
Humidity
Our Deployments
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Outline
Deployment Overview
Reliability and Failure Analysis
A Hitchhiker’s Guide
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Sensors
Fault Analysis
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Time
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Failure Analysis
Internet
Central Database
Thermostat
Relay Machine
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Temperature Sensors
Light Switches
Doorway Sensors
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Power Outage
Sensors
Fault Analysis
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Time
Sensor-Days – down time × number of sensors
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Fault Analysis
Reinstall
Hard drive failure
Plug disconnections
Sub-system failure
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Outline
Deployment Overview
Reliability and Failure Analysis
A Hitchhiker’s Guide
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Homes are Not a Power Panacea
30-40 outlets per house
Long wires
2.3x more down time than
batteries
More maintenance calls
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Homes Have Poor Connectivity
Wireless connectivity
Power line communications
Wires
180bit/s
5 min polling rate
Exploiting Home Automation Protocols
for Load Monitoring in Smart Buildings
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Homes are Hazardous Environments
Children
Mobile objects
Roomba
Guests and
cleaning services
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Homes are Remote Environments
Minimize installation time
Scout
Lab assembly and
configuration
Checklists
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Expect Limited User Participation
Button Tracking
Wearable Tracking
Self-reporting
Surveys
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Aesthetics Matter in Homes
Disappear into the
woodwork
Leave no trace
No LEDS at night
Noise
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Simplify the Architecture
Internet
Central Database
Thermostat
Relay Machine
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Temperature Sensors
Light Switches
Doorway Sensors
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Similar Work
Infrastructure-based
Neural Network House, Aware-Home, MavHome,
PlaceLab
Infrastructure-less
Tapia, Cook, Kasteren
Lessons Learned
Edwards and Grinter – 7 challenges
“Hitchhiker’s guides for WSN deployments”
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Summary
AC Power is not abundant or reliable
Wireless connectivity is worse than expected
Unexpected environmental hazards
Houses are remote environments
User participation is limited
Aesthetics are important
COTS are a double-edged sword
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Thank You
Any questions?
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Root Failures
Root Cause
House G
House H
House I
House J
Sensing sub-system
4107
642
4757
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Gateway Down
5596
0
3
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Plug Disconnected
509
30
474
10
Battery Dead
452
17
168
0
Wireless Link Loss
410
0
122
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Internet Down
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97
178
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Power Outage
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