GE Eco Home Center

.Net / WPF (Windows Presentation Foudation)

1/06/2009 0:00:00




We are in the progress of developing a domotica user interface which will control a smart home. The goal for this project is to develop a user interface which is more user-friendly and easy to use than any current smart home interface.
Therefore we decided to use 2 modes users can view their house in, a floor plan mode and picture mode. Users can easily draw a floor plan of their house in the user interface and add devices to each room. By clicking on the room, the room zooms in and the devices appear. In the second mode, users can choose a picture to use as a background and put their devices on the picture itself.
The whole system is built in WPF .NET 3.5 using Visual studio and Expression Blend in combination with Adobe Illustrator where everything is designed with vector drawings.