Smart Home Control for Disabled Using Brain Computer Interface

Electroencephalography (EEG) based smart home control system is one of the major applications of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) that allows disabled people to maximize their capabilities at home. A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a device that enables severely disabled people to communicate and interact with their environments using their brain waves. In this project, the scope includes Graphical User Interface (GUI) acts as a control and monitoring system for home appliances which using BCI as an input. Hence, NeuroSky MindWave headset is used to detect EEG signal from brain. Furthermore, a prototype model is developed using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, 4 channels 5V relay module, light bulb and fan. The raw data signal from brain wave is being extracted to operate the home appliances. Besides, the results agree well with the command signal used during the experiment. Lastly, the developed system can be easily implemented in smart homes and has high potential to be used in smart automation

Design of Pervasive Discovery, Service and Control for Smart Home Appliances: An Integration of Raspberry Pi, UPnP Protocols and Xbee

Pervasive technology is an important feature in smart home appliances control. With pervasive technology, the user is able to discover and control every device and each service without initialization configuration and setup. Since single-board computer often used in smart home appliances, combining pervasive technology and microcomputer/single-board computer will be important to be applied and make a possibility to create a smart home system based on the requirement of it users that will be beneficial for the smart home users and the developers. This paper proposed a design of pervasive discovery, service, and control system for smart home appliances by integrating Raspberry Pi, UPnP protocols, and Xbee that able to control an RGB LED services such as switching, dimming, change color and read a temperature sensor as an example in smart home appliances. This paper enriched the raspberry Pi GPIO function to be able to control via TCP/IP network with UPnP protocol and receive information from a temperature sensor node via Xbee communication. Service control time is measured with UPnP round trip time by subtracting HTTP response arrival with HTTP request time. GPIO processing time measured at the application level by counting a timer that starts before GPIO process and ended after GPIO successfully executed

Dreamer Technologies\u27 Home Automation System

The home automation market has been growing rapidly over the course of the last few years, and it is expected to grow by 143% between 2015 and 2022.1 In the next few years, the connected home automation system will come to fruition and there will be home automation systems for sale that allows users to control any home device seamlessly from an easy to use interface. While there are many home automation companies already in the market, none of them have truly captured the idea of the connected smart home. All of the systems are lacking in some area, whether it be dependence on internet connectivity, or slow response time. And to this date there is no consumer-friendly system that is regarded as the standard for home automation. This market is growing quickly and we hope to use our knowledge of computer systems and computer programing to change and advance the home automation market

APPLICATION OF HOME LIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM USING ARDUINO WITH MOBILE BASED WIFI MEDIA

Nowadays, technology development encourage people to think creatively, not not only to explore new discoveries, but also to maximize existing technological performance to ease human work in everyday life. The need for an automatic control system is needed with the increasing activity of each individual community with various erratic activities and times. As a result, many activities in the household are delayed, such as turning on or turning off the lights in every room at night and in the morning. Smart home system is one solution that suits the needs of the current automatic controllers. Smart home system is a home or building is equipped with an integrated technology with the help of the tool/tools which can be a computer or other device, for example a smartphone to provide all the comfort, safety, security and energy saving is automatic and programmed. The smart home system can be used to control almost all equipment and equipment at home, from lighting settings to various household appliances, which can be done only by using sound, infrared light or remote control. In this study, a smart home system was created for home light control system applications using Arduino Uno microcontroller via mobile-based wifi media. With this application the user can control the home lights by turning off or turning on the home lights remotely through the mobile media. Thus the efficiency of electricity use becomes more maintained

Examining the Concept of Smart Home Technologies (IoT Systems)

With the huge advancement in wireless sensor networks and other computer technologies, Home automation plays an important role in human life by making Lives at home easier and faster. Over the years, several smart home systems have been developed using network wireless systems such as Controller Area Network(CAN), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Radio Frequency, Cognitive radio, and several others. With this technology, the user easily controls their homes through their computer and assigns actions dependent on time or sensor readings if any from the device in the network of the home automation irrespective of the location of the user. This technology isn’t only limited to controlling appliances around us remotely but also helps in terms of security by warning the user during unusual and critical situations. Home automation is flexibly used in different places with high precision which saves time and money, and also provides comfort, security, and convenience to its user. Home automation can also help the aged and incapacitated people and provide quality of life to people without the need for caregivers or any care from institutions. People's desire for an intelligent home has increased dramatically in recent years as mobile connectivity devices are much more convenient and simple. This paper focuses on several smart home systems that have been developed in the twentieth century. Networks are enhanced by IoT to collect and analyze data proficiently from sensors and actuators. IoT creating a new era in the world of information and technologies in the areas of security has become vital as intrusion, theft, fire, and leakage of flammable gas that are threats to human lives never fails to continuously be a threat to humanity. IoT is the existing network of the internet where the computer systems will connect to real-world objects or things such as vehicles, devices, home appliances, and many others. This technology saves human energy and it is also a user-friendly safe system that makes the life of its user easier. Keywords: Smart Home, IoT, sensors, home automation ,Controller Area Network. DOI: 10.7176/ISDE/11-1-06 Publication date: February 29th 202

A Privacy Vulnerability in Smart Home IoT Devices

Smart home IoT devices are becoming increasingly popular and increasingly prevalent in people’s homes. These devices create new potential attack surfaces in people’s homes, and therefore it is important that the manufacturers are taking the appropriate measures to secure these devices. The motivation for this work was to determine if these measures were being taken since people could be unknowingly purchasing smart home IoT devices with security or privacy vulnerabilities.Smart home IoT devices that are available to consumers were purchased and analyzed for this paper. Some of these devices were found to contain privacy vulnerabilities. Therefore, some smart home IoT devices on the market contain a privacy vulnerability, which is they do not encrypt transmitted data over a local WiFi network, and therefore can be subject to a man in the middle attack.The privacy and security of seven different smart home IoT devices were analyzed including smart light bulbs, WiFi thermostats, a smart plug, and the Amazon Echo. It was found that four of the seven devices do not encrypt transmitted data over the local WiFi network connection, which is a privacy vulnerability. For two of these devices, the transmitted data could be visible in plain text, which can be easily deciphered by an attacker. Three of the four devices that contain a privacy vulnerability were also vulnerable to replay attacks, meaning replaying recorded packets causes the device to perform an action such as turn the lights on. It is discussed how the data obtained due to this privacy vulnerability can be used to track a user’s lifestyle habits. From this data an attacker can infer if the user is currently home or away. Lastly, solutions to these vulnerabilities are presented, which includes encrypting the communication data that is transmitted between the different nodes of the smart home IoT devices. For devices that use a point-to-point type of architecture, lightweight encryption techniques are needed and discussed.Master of Science in EngineeringComputer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of Michigan-Dearbornhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139706/1/49698122_ECE_699_Masters_Thesis_Denko_Michael.pdfDescription of 49698122_ECE_699_Masters_Thesis_Denko_Michael.pdf : Master's Thesi

IP Based Module for Building Automation System

Embedded systems technology has a lot of applications in the various fields of life to bring ease and comfort for humans. One kind of applications is in the development of modern buildings, where embedded systems are applied to the control system. Building Automation Systems (BAS) are often encountered in modern buildings today. They are responsible to automatically control the building appliances such as electrical equipments, fire alarms, security systems, and others. Conventionally, a smart home that can be controlled by an embedded system is connected to a central monitoring unit such as a computer. The system commonly employs RS232 or RS485 serial communication, so that the control activities cannot be carried out from a long distance. With the rapid technology development in the field of communication, many recent communication devices are practical and have a good performance. One of them is a device with the Android operating system that can access the internet, thus it has a significant role in simplifying the management of smart homes. This research proposes the design of a smart home that can conserve energy by turning off unneeded electrical appliances, detect disorders such as flood, fire, and theft, and also serve as an early warning system through SMS Gateway. It can be monitored and controlled remotely over the Internet by an Android device

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HOME USE PORTABLE SMART ELECTRONICS

The widespread of low cost embedded electronics makes it easier to implement the smart devices that can understand either the environment or the user behaviors. The main object of this project is to design and implement home use portable smart electronics, including the portable monitoring device for home and office security and the portable 3D mouse for convenient use. Both devices in this project use the MPU6050 which contains a 3 axis accelerometer and a 3 axis gyroscope to sense the inertial motion of the door or the human hands movement. For the portable monitoring device for home and office security, MPU6050 is used to sense the door (either home front door or cabinet door) movement through the gyroscope, and Raspberry Pi is then used to process the data it receives from MPU6050, if the data value exceeds the preset threshold, Raspberry Pi would control the USB Webcam to take a picture and then send out an alert email with the picture to the user. The advantage of this device is that it is a small size portable stand-alone device with its own power source, it is easy to implement, really cheap for residential use, and energy efficient with instantaneous alert. For the 3D mouse, the MPU6050 would use both the accelerometer and gyroscope to sense user hands movement, the data are processed by MSP430G2553 through a digital smooth filter and a complementary filter, and then the filtered data will pass to the personal computer through the serial COM port. By applying the cursor movement equation in the PC driver, this device can work great as a mouse with acceptable accuracy. Compared to the normal optical mouse we are using, this mouse does not need any working surface, with the use of the smooth and complementary filter, it has certain accuracy for normal use, and it is easy to be extended to a portable mouse as small as a finger ring

dWatch: a Personal Wrist Watch for Smart Environments

Intelligent environments, such as smart homes or domotic systems, have the potential to support people in many of their ordinary activities, by allowing complex control strategies for managing various capabilities of a house or a building: lights, doors, temperature, power and energy, music, etc. Such environments, typically, provide these control strategies by means of computers, touch screen panels, mobile phones, tablets, or In-House Displays. An unobtrusive and typically wearable device, like a bracelet or a wrist watch, that lets users perform various operations in their homes and to receive notifications from the environment, could strenghten the interaction with such systems, in particular for those people not accustomed to computer systems (e.g., elderly) or in contexts where they are not in front of a screen. Moreover, such wearable devices reduce the technological gap introduced in the environment by home automation systems, thus permitting a higher level of acceptance in the daily activities and improving the interaction between the environment and its inhabitants. In this paper, we introduce the dWatch, an off-the-shelf personal wearable notification and control device, integrated in an intelligent platform for domotic systems, designed to optimize the way people use the environment, and built as a wrist watch so that it is easily accessible, worn by people on a regular basis and unobtrusiv