Plug and Play Home Energy Generation with Secure IoT control

The goal of team SunBeam is to design a system to allow a user plug and play remote access to their personal solar generation system. To do this, we altered an Inergy Kodiak 1100W Solar Generator from within. When unmodiﬁed, the Kodiak does provide useful information via an LCD screen attached to the device, but loses all historical data as soon as it stops charging or is powered oﬀ. The task of integrating the Kodiak completely is outside the scope of what the time allowed, so we focused mainly on getting information from the Kodiak in a way that could be easily utilised in an IoT application. Using sensors both within and outside of the chassis, we add useful functionality to the generator such as long term statistics, remote access, and real time readings on the state of the system. We hope that our work on this project will lay the foundation for future teams by creating an interface with outside sensors and recording vital information about the voltage and current of the generator.

=Problem Definition= The goal of our project is to add IoT functionality to an existing solar generator, which includes real time monitoring, statistic recording, and remote access. We also aim to accommodate future I/O features.

Background
Small scale solar generation has many beneﬁts, but often it just comes down to two: convenience and money. Our project aims to modify a product designed to be easy to use so that its easier to understand and even more convenient.

Imagine a person with a small solar setup going camping for a few weeks with their RV in the middle of nowhere. If they have a solar setup with a Kodiak generator, there are a few ways IoT integration could be of real use.

For example, when using power during the night, there is no way to know how much charge the battery has left other than to check the system itself. If they were to go for a hike and forgot the lights on, they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. IoT integration could solve these problems. Our system could potentially push a notiﬁcation to the user’s phone when they only have a few hours of power left, or could allow them to toggle power output on and oﬀ. To open this world of opportunities, we needed to get information into a usable state that could be easily integrated with IoT.

Deliverables
1. Design will integrate Custom Circuits with a modern IoT standard

2. Robust IoT Security - Defined and tested after prototype is developed

3. State Reporting - Gather information from environment and securely deliver to user

4. Control Signals - Can securely receive information from end users, such as requesting information from specific dates

Specifications
Requirements: Connectivity - Must fit ‘plug and play’ description. Should have wireless connectivity without requiring special installation. Security: We will create a threat model and upgrade our design in accordance to that.





=Design Considerations=

We will design a system that gives a customer access and control over their home solar energy generation and power. The user will be able to see things such as the current power being generated, the light conditions outside, and the temperature. They will be able to control things such as ...

We will approach this with three goals in mind. Secure remote control Control system Sensors

=Project Processing= Design Process

What we desire to do with Raspberry Pi
Detect the temperature Show the value of current & voltage



What does the Rasberry PI look like?



What does the Solar Panel and Kodiak Solar Generator look like?



The general schematic of the project



The specific schematic of the project with the parts



The circuit schematic of the project with the parts



LEM PCB Soldering

The datasheet of ADC sensor



Design Steps



=Final Design=

The general ideal of the project



=Validation= Threat Model

Introduction

One of the main goals we would like to measure our success in this project is our implementation of security features. To do this we need to define what the most likely exploits to our system are and the many ways we could prevent those exploits from being used. This threat model lists the possible points of interest in our system, how vital they are to the security of our device, and ways me might prevent them.

There are 4 stages to effectively addressing security:

-Model the application

-Enumerate Threats

-Mitigate threats

-Validate the mitigations

Part 1: Physical security

-Safety features

-Power storage

Part 2: Data security

-Vital Data

-Data Storage

Part 3: Network security

-Network Communications

-Third Parties

-Authentication

=Team Members=

=Additional Documentation=

Project Schedule

Project Schedule

Six-Week Plan

Six-Week Plan

Budget

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Snapshot

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Agenda

Agenda

Meeting Minutes

Feb 2019 Meeting Minutes

Mar 2019 Meeting Minutes

Apr 2019 Meeting Minutes

Sep 2019 Meeting Minutes

Oct 2019 Meeting Minutes

Nov 2019 Meeting Minutes

Presentations

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Final Presentation

Design Review

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Poster

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GitHub

Repository