How to Build an Automated Intelligent Room Lighting System with FPGA

https://youtu.be/k5gNt69FuBU

Hello FPGA lovers! The project in focus today is aimed at creating an Intelligent Room Lighting System with FPGA, where you can bid adieu to the use of switches! The system is powered by an FPGA board connected to a set of LEDs that turn on depending on the number of people in the room. This project has been designed for 8 LEDs, hence 8 people, and when there is no one in the room, the LEDs switch off themselves in 60 seconds.

The materials used for the project are a FPGA Board, 7 LEDs, 7 Resistors, Jumper wires, a micro USB cable and a breadboard. This implementation is a miniaturized model of the actual project, and the things you will need for that are relays, bulbs instead of LEDs, and sensors to detect the number of people in the room.

The author has divided the entire project into 5 modules, whose significance and role have been explained thoroughly from Step 3 to Step 8. This implementation uses the 7 segment display on the FPGA Board used by the author for the 60 second countdown. This saves the cost on buying and interfacing an additional 7 segment display on other FPGA boards, so you may need it. The project uses switches on the FPGA for determining the number of people in the room. This can be replaced with sensors for real scenario cases.

The author has attached a zip file containing the code for the project in Step 9. The code is written in VHDL (.vhd) and has been broken down into modules just like the steps in the project. The code logic is relatively simple to follow and can be easily modified to incorporate sensors and increase or decrease the number of lights in the room.

With the successful implementation of this project in reality, you can light up your room depending on the number of people in it, and completely forget about turning the lights on and off!

By RichardNLe