Towards the Development of an Efficient and Cost Effective Intelligent Home System Based on the Internet of Things

• Published in: International journal of computer science and information security Vol. 14; no. 6; p. 343
• Main Authors: Chaudary, A Imtar, Usman, Muhammad, Farhad, Arshad, Khan, Wajid Ullah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh L J S Publishing 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Automation; Boards; Control systems; Devices; Internet; Internet of Things; Microcontrollers; Remote control; Sensors; Smart houses; Smartphones
• ISSN: 1947-5500

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology which is covering everyday things from industrial machinery to consumer goods in order to exchange information and complete tasks while involved in other work. IoT based smart home automation system is a system that uses PCs, mobile phones or remote devices to control basic operations for home automatically from anyplace around the world using internet. The proposed intelligent home automation system differs from existing systems as it allows the user to operate the system from anywhere around the world by using internet connection along with intelligent nodes that can take decisions according to the environmental conditions. We implemented a home automation system using sensor nodes that are directly connected to Arduino microcontrollers. Microcontroller is programmed so that it can perform some basic operations on the basis of sensors data. e.g. fan is controlled on basis of temperature value and light is controlled on the basis of occurrence of motion in the room etc. Furthermore Arduino board is connected to the internet using Wi-Fi module. An extra feature this system provides is to monitor power consumption of different home appliances. The designed system provides the user remote control of numerous appliances locally as well as outside the home. This designed system is expandable, allowing multiple devices to be controlled. The objective of the proposed system is to provide a low cost and efficient solution for home automation system by using IoT. Results show that the proposed system is able to handle all controlling and monitoring of home.