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