Active Projects
The Green Back: Environmentally Friendly Backup Power System [project page]
Justin NingWei Chiu, Addison Ferrell, Catherine Johnson, Darby McEvoy, Daniel Ryan, Katherine Danziger, Matthew Campbell, Seth Sheldon, Stephen Lewis
Advisor: Josiah Knight, Lincoln Pratson, Bob Kielb
Summer 2008
Smart Pool [project page]
Kelvin Gu, Michael Kup, Chengyu Li, Joseph Ryu, Xinli Zhang
Advisor: Steve Feller, Tom Rose
Summer 2008
Solar Platform [project page]
Richard Jansson
Advisor: Tom Rose
Summer 2008
Information Telescope
Jack Li
Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, Tom Rose
Summer 2008
Microbial Bioreactor for Hydrogen Production [project page]
Ignacio Leonhardt, Ade Adekunle, Daniel Szoke
Advisor: Professor Xinnian Dong
Summer 2008
Composting [project page]
Lucia Melby
Advisor: Tom Rose
Summer 2008
Inactive Projects
These projects have been completed as part of the Duke Smart Home program, but are no longer in an active state. Inactive projects include those projects that were completed and implemented in the home, but might not have an active project team.
Naturemill Project [project page]
Jeff Schwane
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Air Quality [project page]
Christine Smith, Tina Del Carpio
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Energy Storage [project page]
Dan Coral, Dennis Bartlett, Cody Maxwell, Scott Bailey
Advisor: Bob Kielb
Spring 2008
Improving Hot Water System [project page]
Holly Hackman, Tiffany Hui, Jeff Schwane, Scott Strickland
Advisor: Bob Kielb
Spring 2008
Light Right [project page]
Jeff Kreutter, Avishek Panth, Jared Dunnmon
Advisor: Jeff Schwane
Spring 2008
Media Interface and Distribution [project page]
Scott Steinberg, Adam Price Pollak, Jordan Woodson, Wei Han, Jeff Kreutter, Sam Reiss
Advisor: Jeff Schwane
Spring 2008
Smart Doorbell [project page]
Tamara Louie, David Song
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Smart Mailbox [project page]
Maggie Abernathy, John Crowell, Drew Hoffman, Leslie Voorhees
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Smart Transport [project page]
Arnav Gupta, Brad Larson, Jimmy Shadlick, John Reynolds
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Sound Proofing [project page]
Xiao Li, Neil Panjwani, Joshua Wohl
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Systems Monitoring [project page]
Baishi Wu, Nick Sarnoff, Stephanie Korszen, Xinli Zhang
Advisor: Tom Rose
Spring 2008
Photovoltaic System Performance Indicator [project page]
Lee Pearson, Adam Dixon, Steve Worrell, Eric Falls
Advisor: Claudia Gunsch, Jeff Schwane
Spring 2008
Voice Recognition [project page]
Andrew Hsiao, Moses Lee, Jeff Shen
Advisor: Jeff Schwane
Spring 2008
Bio-Diesel
Mark Gu, Eric Mansfield
Advisor: Jeff Schwane
Spring 2008
Smarthouse Program Evaluation [project page]
"Team Sentience" - RFID e-Locator [project page]
Virtual Smart Home [project page]
Cold Box For the Developing World [project page]
FIRST LEGO League, Folsom California [project page]
Uganda with Engineers Without Borders [project page]
Power Monitoring [project page]
Construction Monitoring [project page]
Wisdom Door [project page]
PV Lawnmower [project page]
Journalism Report [project page]
Hot Water Recovery [project page]
Acoustic Monitoring [project page]
Accessibility in The Home Depot Smart Home - ADA [project page]
Cooling Systems for The Home Depot Smart Home [project page]
Daylighting [project page]
Fire Safety [project page]
Geothermal Pump [project page]
Indoor Air Quality Monitoring [project page]
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) [project page]
Media-on-Demand [project page]
Photovoltaic System Design [project page]
Protecting Public Health - UV Disinfection of Drinking Water [project page]
Recycling [project page]
Retractable Roof [project page]
RFID Technology [project page]
Security [project page]
Noise Cancellation [project page] 
Structural Monitoring [project page]
Water Catchment, Purification/Rainwater Harvesting [project page]
Adaptive Digital Signal Processing - Active Noise Filtering [project page]
Facial Recognition [project page]
Advanced HVAC Control and Artificial Intelligence Controllers [project page]
LED Lighting [project page]
Microphone Arrays [project page]
Net-Health Monitoring [project page]
Query by Humming [project page]
Recycling Scale [project page]
Residential Piezoelectric Energy Sources [project page]
Sensor Platform [project page]
Shower Heat Recovery [project page]
Sleep Monitoring
Home Automation [project page]
Site Context, Landscaping [project page]