The aim of the diploma thesis was to develop a system to control and manage the auxiliary heating of a remote holiday facility. We wanted to replace the current system for maintaining room temperature above freezing to prevent damage to the building's plumbing due to water freezing in the water pipes. We also wanted to create a system that included all of the existing features, was competitive with systems on the market in terms of ease of use, but unlike them, was more customizable to the needs of a particular facility (e.g., freeze protection).
After researching the field of IoT technology and existing systems, we defined the requirements in the system plan and decided to create our own prototype system consisting of open-source software components, easily accessible hardware, and our own hardware prototype in the form of IoT thermostatic sockets.
The result is an open source prototype that enables all the capabilities of the legacy system, while the IoT technology brings many improvements in ease of use, reliability, security, fault tolerance, added value for the user, and enabling upgrades and expansion in the future.
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