In recent years, the home environment has seen a
rapid introduction of network enabled digital technology. This
technology offers new and exciting opportunities to increase
the connectivity of devices within the home for the purpose of
home automation. Mobile devices are ideal in providing a user
interface in a home automation system, due to their portability
and their wide range of capabilities. They can communicate
with a home automation network through an Internet gateway,
but cannot directly communicate with devices in the network,
as these devices usually implement low power communication
protocols, such as ZigBee, WiFi etc.In this project we aims at
controlling Home appliances via Android device using Wifi as
communication protocol and Raspberry Pi as server system.
We create a user friendly interface for the android device that
allows the user to communicate with the Raspberry Pi server.
The server will be interfaced with a relay circuit board that
controls the appliances running in Home. The communication
with server allows the user to select the appropriate device.
The server communicates with the corresponding relay. By this
we offers a scalable and cost effective Home automation
system.
Shaiju Paul : Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jyothi Engineering College, Cheruthuruthy
Thrissur, Kerala, India
Ashlin Antony : Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jyothi Engineering College, Cheruthuruthy
Thrissur, Kerala, India
Aswathy B : Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jyothi Engineering College, Cheruthuruthy
Thrissur, Kerala, India
Home Automation
The system as the name indicates, ‘Android based home
automation’ makes the system more flexible and provides
attractive user interface compared to other home
automation systems. In this system we integrate mobile
devices into home automation systems. A novel
architecture for a home automation system is proposed
using the relatively new communication technologies.The
system consists of mainly three components is a wifi
module, raspberry pi board and relay circuits. Wifi is used
as the communication channel between android phone and
the raspberry pi board. We hide the complexity of the notions involved in the home automation system by
including them into a simple, but comprehensive set of
related concepts. This simplification is needed to fit as
much of the functionality on the limited space offered by a
mobile device’s display.
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