Android Based Home Automation Using Raspberry Pi  
  Authors : Shaiju Paul; Ashlin Antony; Aswathy B

 

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.

 

Published In : IJCAT Journal Volume 1, Issue 1

Date of Publication : 28 February 2014

Pages : 143 - 147

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Publication Link : IJCAT-2014/1-1/Android-Based-Home-Automation-Using-Raspberry-Pi

 

 

 

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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