Projects using openHAB
openHAB is used in many different ways and areas of interest. In the remainder of this page you'll a list of projects (at least this known to use). This list will grow over time and should a good overview of what has been realised with openHAB.
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All students are facing the same problem while writing their Bachelor- or Masterthesis: they are lacking of time. openHAB helps them to focus on the really relevant parts of their work rather than "wasting" their time on implementing foundation/framework services.
University of Applied Sciences Cologne
http://www.verwaltung.fh-koeln.de/aktuelles/2013/08/verw_msg_06233.html
TU Dortmund University - Communication Technology Institute
For presentation and validation the Communication Technology Insitute realized the Connected Home Lab in 2013. Students can validate their project results in a appartement like environment. Futhermore proof-of-concept demonstrators show the results of research projects.
One major problem in the area of home automation and smart home is the number of different technologies, vendors and eco-systems. The usage of a middleware is necessary to provide uniform access to different ressources in a home network.
OpenHAB offers a elaborated open source framework based on OSGI with commercially comparable UI and performance.
OpenHAB has commercially comparable UI and performance. This is why, we can focus on the communication technology and use the "higher layers" without modification.
We implemented the fritzbox-aha binding. By communicating with the daemon running on the fritbox, we can control and monitor the FritzDECT sockets.
We implemented the Homematic binding with the CUL-USB-Stick. Instead of relying on the CCU (HM central station), OpenHAB can communicate directly over a USB 868 MHz transceiver with HM devices.
Smart Home system will be integrated with Smart Grid applications in the future. Currently, smart meters with wMBus interface are rolled out in Germany. We implemented a wMBus binding, which communicates over a serial interface with a 868 MHz transceiver. With the correct serial number of the smart meter, the encrypted packets sent periodically (1 min - 10 min) can be received. This way, the energy consumption of the houshold can be monitored with OpenHAB.
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
http://sdeurope.uch.ceu.es/2010/cms/sde/pages/en/intro/welcome.php?lang=EN
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