Process

I started the process with looking into the components that I can use. For the scope of this project and given the time constraint of one week, I decided to do a prototype demonstrator version of the actual product. Everything should be pretty  much similar if I'm doing the actual one. The reason is, most of the components I needed were already there in my IoT kit; The photo resistor, the lid and the servo motor. 

My system is comprised of two main systems; the sensing part and the output control. Luckily, I found similar projects and examples that I was able make use of their code. Below is a sample of the code I used from our GitHub website.  

Servo Code:

https://github.com/daraghbyrne/DesigningIoT/blob/master/7.%20Output/a.%20Servo%20-%20Motion/ServoControl/ServoControl.ino)  

Photo-resistor Code:

https://github.com/daraghbyrne/DesigningIoT/blob/master/4.%20Basics%20of%20Sensors/a.%20Light/Photoresistor/Photoresistor.ino

The reason I chose the servo motor is that for this particular application we need a motor that can rotate based on angle instruction instead of continuous rotation when connected to power.  I also made use of an example of a servo motor on our website.