My name is Ana Rosselló. I am 25 years old and I come from Barcelona, Spain. I have studied Telecommunications Engineering in Universitat Politècnica de Calatunya (UPC). I came to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet to do the Telecommunications Summer School in 2007. I really enjoyed my stay at DTU and I decided to do the Master in Telecommunications with specialization on Signals and Transmission Technology. During my studies at DTU I took a subject called Design and Synthesis of Embedded Systems, coordinated by Jan Madsen. In this subject we designed a Distributed Energy-based Routing Algorithm with Deterministic Clustering for wireless sensor networks, which arose my interest in sensor networks.
At the moment I am doing my master project under the supervision of Lars Dittman and in collaboration with Zen-Sys Company. The title of my project is Modelling of Wireless Sensor Network Routing Protocol for Home Automation and it is based on implementing Z-Wave protocol in OPNET. I am also going to make some suggestions for improvements and try to test them in the OPNET implementation.
I decided to choose this topic as I think home automation is a growing sector and I would like to focus my career on it. Nowadays sensors can be found in almost any electronic device, in our cameras, thermostats, computers, even in our cars. Sensors are becoming a very important component of our electronic devices. It is easy to imagine that, in the near future, all houses will include some sort of sensors to turn on and off the light, radiators, and other electronic devices. However sensor technology for home environment is still emerging and there are lots of questions unanswered. It is clear that research is need in this wireless home technology called home automation. However, home automation is more than that, home automation is a user friendly, secure and reliable way of controlling, not only sensors, but also to control multi-media home entertainment systems and all the other electronic devices found in our homes.
During this PhD I would like to study what researches have been doing in this area and what possibilities does home automation offer to the end user. I would like to discuss the different protocols that have been proposed for home automation and what could be the scope of this technology.
A home automation network will probably consists of different types of devices with different requirements. For instance, some devices like smoke alarms may run on batteries, which means that the use of these nodes as repeaters should be avoided. On the other hand multi-media home entertainment devices are usually connected to power supply and require high bit rate communications. Due to the fact of the different requirements of these devices and the different functionalities of home automation more than one protocol is probably needed. However, during
this PhD I would like to study the possibility of integrating these different protocols under a common platform to make management of these devices more user-friendly.
In this 3-year period I would like to have a closer look of how to solve the problems that home automation presents, as security, reliability, protocols compatibility, and a user friendly solution.
Furthermore, I would like to approach the study of these intelligent home networks by modelling them with OPNET and obtaining results which I can then analyze and compare with other protocols. I would also like to be able to make some set-ups with few nodes to try the different protocols and analyze how they behave.
I am really interested in doing this Ph.D. as I would like to learn more about home automation technology and make my own research on the area. I have decided to stay at DTU as my master experience in this university has been a really fulfilling experience and I would like to continue my career here. I also think that Denmark is a country which invests in technology and research which is a very attractive aspect. Furthermore, I have liked living in Kobenhavn and at the moment I am attending Danish classes.
At the moment I am doing my master project under the supervision of Lars Dittman and in collaboration with Zen-Sys Company. The title of my project is Modelling of Wireless Sensor Network Routing Protocol for Home Automation and it is based on implementing Z-Wave protocol in OPNET. I am also going to make some suggestions for improvements and try to test them in the OPNET implementation.
I decided to choose this topic as I think home automation is a growing sector and I would like to focus my career on it. Nowadays sensors can be found in almost any electronic device, in our cameras, thermostats, computers, even in our cars. Sensors are becoming a very important component of our electronic devices. It is easy to imagine that, in the near future, all houses will include some sort of sensors to turn on and off the light, radiators, and other electronic devices. However sensor technology for home environment is still emerging and there are lots of questions unanswered. It is clear that research is need in this wireless home technology called home automation. However, home automation is more than that, home automation is a user friendly, secure and reliable way of controlling, not only sensors, but also to control multi-media home entertainment systems and all the other electronic devices found in our homes.
During this PhD I would like to study what researches have been doing in this area and what possibilities does home automation offer to the end user. I would like to discuss the different protocols that have been proposed for home automation and what could be the scope of this technology.
A home automation network will probably consists of different types of devices with different requirements. For instance, some devices like smoke alarms may run on batteries, which means that the use of these nodes as repeaters should be avoided. On the other hand multi-media home entertainment devices are usually connected to power supply and require high bit rate communications. Due to the fact of the different requirements of these devices and the different functionalities of home automation more than one protocol is probably needed. However, during
this PhD I would like to study the possibility of integrating these different protocols under a common platform to make management of these devices more user-friendly.
In this 3-year period I would like to have a closer look of how to solve the problems that home automation presents, as security, reliability, protocols compatibility, and a user friendly solution.
Furthermore, I would like to approach the study of these intelligent home networks by modelling them with OPNET and obtaining results which I can then analyze and compare with other protocols. I would also like to be able to make some set-ups with few nodes to try the different protocols and analyze how they behave.
I am really interested in doing this Ph.D. as I would like to learn more about home automation technology and make my own research on the area. I have decided to stay at DTU as my master experience in this university has been a really fulfilling experience and I would like to continue my career here. I also think that Denmark is a country which invests in technology and research which is a very attractive aspect. Furthermore, I have liked living in Kobenhavn and at the moment I am attending Danish classes.
To conclude I would like to add that I look forward to beginning this PhD and work at DTU. I know that a Ph.D. is a big challenge, but I am willing to work hard and commit myself completely to it.
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