FTTR Smart Home WiFi Router

Abstract: In this project, I wish to take a glance at what WiFi routers can do in the future. The new solution could make the current WiFi routers have more physical meaning which can impact our real life while providing indispensable wifi signals. Besides offering WiFi signals, WiFi routers adopted with FTTR all-optical networking solutions can control and monitor all the IoT smart devices connected to the current local network. That means households no longer need to download apps from different IoT brands to control the smart devices in the house since all the operations can be implemented through the FTTR routers' access ports. The WiFi routers then become users’ hardware-based housekeepers helping manage the future smart home. This project is highly focused on ICT technology study, tech-trend, and IoT user study. This is an attempt to apply emerging technologies to current products. I then utilized the research methods of literature reviews, Internet searches, and interviews for the technology study. To further explore the current routers’ usage scenarios and issues, I conducted a questionnaire and interviews as my primary user study. The design was then realized through the methods of ideation sketches, CAD drawings, rough cardboard mockups, technical sketches, and digital renderings.