Product Design Goals - SL001

The cost has to be low.

It should off it at everyday in the morning 6:15am and On it 6:30pm.

Display the status of the following,

Power(Red)
Gate Light Status(Green)
Fault(Orange)

Now how to display this :

1. LCD on the unit attached to gate outside the home.
2. LCD on the unit attached to gate inside the home.
3. LED Turn On/Off.

Selected : LED Turn On or OFF

Redundancy :

Has to be redundant from the effect of shading.

Selection: RTC based circuit to determine to time to shut down or start up.





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