Digital Communications and Networking Commons^™

Active Directory And Group Policy From The Ground Up, Nicholas Maurer

Undergraduate Research

In this paper, I describe my experience in building a virtual network using VMware’s ESXI platform along with my experience with using Group Policy and Active Directory to administrate a network. I also detail some of my goals and my intentions with this project and where I intend on taking it in the future.

Lyfi, Kianoosh Salami, Justin Cotton, Elush Shirazpour

Electrical Engineering

This paper will cover the steps necessary to design, build, and manage networkable smart light switches over WiFi via a mobile application. It contains a microcontroller running a real time operating system, a WiFi module, a Java server with SQLite databasing, and a mobile phone application.

LyFi is designed to turn on/off and dim household lights while only requiring the same installation procedure as a less capable dimmer switch. Once installed and connected to a network, LyFi will self-discover and configure. The server automatically propogates a database of nodes where any mobile device running an application can receive an updated …