Project Hermes

Our client, Robert Bosch Corporation, builds security systems that coordinate heterogeneous components. These systems are complex, distributed and embedded and must process information from different sensors to determine where to signal an alarm based on its state. The problem is that most of the work is manual, and a designer must evaluate the tradeoffs between the cost of the components and desired security level to decide where to place sensors, actuators, and processing agents in the system. In addition, the designer must determine how to network components together to make sure there are no bottlenecks, and that the network provides reliable and timely information flow from sensors to security and safety monitors.

Team Serendipity developed the “Configuration Assistant” tool which supported the design and analysis of building security and safety systems. The CA should support the design and analysis of the system’s network configuration. The extension should support network components and their particular properties (e.g., bandwidth) in such a way that the designer can evaluate reliability and performance.