Smart Office System

• Main Author: Shaharuddin, Nur Diyana Nadirah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15934/1/Nur%20Diyana_16332.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15934/

Smart Office System is an office automation system developed to help small scale offices and workplaces in Malaysia to control their energy and electricity usage, leading to the decrease of global warming and carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere. This prototype is developed using Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized computer that is cheap and easy to use, connected to sensors and screens, also combined with extensive programming work to complete the whole system. The current problem is that 93.81 percent of the energy industry in Malaysia relies on finite resources such as fossil fuels to generate power for electricity. Fossil fuels will be diminished very soon if it is not conserved and used with care. Other than that, excessive production of electricity will contribute to global warming and increase the carbon dioxide emission to the atmosphere. This project focuses on helping the small scale commercial buildings such as offices, showrooms and workplaces in Malaysia save energy for a brighter future of the environment. Smart Office System will be developed and created to be a low cost, easy-to-build, user-friendly automation system that will help numerous companies to decrease their overhead and facility costs that are usually used to pay off electricity usage. After diligently finishing the project, two testing sessions had been done to determine the usability and functionality of the product, and from the testing, it is found out that the product is majorly accepted and liked by the respondents, with a few remarks and comment on the product to further enhance and improve the product.