Digital Home Gateway (DHG) is a unique concept to empower your home with advanced technological benefits. It endows apartments with features like home automation, safety, security and communication.

DHG uses Digital Home Framework as a core to provide the users with the above features.

Digital Home Gateway has been deployed with resounding success, at 'Wonder Futura' a huge apartment complex in Pune, comprising 5 buildings and a total of 120 apartments, with 900 - 1300 square feet area per apartment.

Each smart home has been equipped with:

• Smart card reader
• Door camera
• Two motion detectors
• Two door sensors
• Gas valve
• Water valve
• Four automation points per room with about 5-6 rooms per apartment
• Local console display screen
• DHG box

There are three servers in Wonder Futura complex, with the following specifications:

• IBM eServer x206m
• Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
• 2MB L2 Cache
• 1 GB RAM
• 160 GB SATA Non Hot Swap
• GIGABIT Ethernet Port

Development done at Aftek

- Hardware design

• Hardware architecture design / development
• Chipset selection
• Hardware design and schematic design
• PCB layout
• Board bring-up
• BSP and HAL design and development (SPI, PCM, RS-485 driver, RS-232 driver, touchpad, LCD, Ethernet, storage)

- Software development

• Design and implementation of system applications on the designed hardware
• C/C++ development for systems applications
• Windows CE (MFC) application development
• Embedded Linux, µCos
• Java - Web based console for automation
• .NET - DHG configuration utility for automation, profile settings