Senior Design Project Ideas for Electrical Engineering: PLCs, Microcontrollers, Home Automation

Hello everybody,
Forgive me if I am posting this in the incorrect place. I am an Electrical Engineering Technology student and I need some help. I am a senior and am taking a senior design project class. I was excited all last semester about this class but now I'm starting to feel like I may not get as much out of it as I originally thought.

Usually, each group is given a project to design and then implement by an advisor. My group was given a project to design (op-amp tester) but have also been given the choice of coming up with another project if it solves a real world problem or improves upon a current idea. The reason that I am looking for a different project is because this op-amp tester idea doesn't really excite me. I have been trying to come up with ideas all day but I am currently coming up empty. My interests are PLCs, microcontrollers, electronics, and programming. I was thinking something along the lines of home automation but am now feeling that it is probably a bit overdone. Anybody out there have any good ideas for a senior design project? Any ideas are most welcome.

Thank you all for your time.

Hi Gerardo,

Well, there are a lot of projects that are actually overdone but the efficiency of these projects are quite terrible. All you can do is to improved these projects like home automation which obviously overdone but you can developed another concept of this like home automation with smart child look-out and management system which is a great help to working parents with infants and small children that they cannot find anyone to look after their child. You can also try green building optimized solution to solve energy crisis and global warming.

God Bless.

Best,
Neil