Development of an Embedded Smart Home System

Smart home systems are expected to become key research area for ubiquitous and embedded system computing in coming years. In this thesis, a new scheme in smart home systems technology using embedded system for providing intelligent control of home appliances is proposed. An embedded system act as protocol glue that incorporates wired and wireless option such as Short Message Service (SMS) router with wireless local area network (WI-FI) for intelligent automation and higher speed of home appliances connectivity. The system is implemented in 2 tier models. First-tier model consist of incorporated design of SMS Router and Wireless Access Point. Wireless local area network (WI-FI) is selected as mechanism due to its transmission range within 100m which suits the smart home requirement for automation and control, justifies the Personal Area Network (PAN) for mobile device connectivity. Second tier model consist of remote application server systems, which cater a conceptual model between embedded hardware and software integration of appliances in smart home. This interface model will be between in house networks and external communication environment, whereas embedded system acts as storage media and server for information interchange between systems especially with mobile devices within a smart home. Embedded system sits at the core of the home network, acts as residential gateway and enables bi-directional communication and data transfer channel among networked appliances in the home and across the Internet. On the other hand, client-side application provides a user-friendly Graphic User Interface (GUI) to enhance the usability of the system. The proposed embedded system has been implemented and verified that the system can be a core device for smart home environment functionality

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SMART HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM

Objective: Due to the rapid development of various technologies and communication devices, the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) for automation has become increasingly common in non-industrial environments. It has integrated well into our day-to-day activities, leading us toward the use of smart home technology. Smart home systems are intelligent system that provide control to home appliances and also security systems. There are limited numbers of intelligent systems that address multiple aspects of the home automation, such as appliances control, security bridge detection, and reducing energy consumption and cost simultaneously. Hence, this research developed a system that solves these problems with an intelligent home automation system. Methods: The designed system was based on Arduino ATMEGA328P microcontroller, MQ2 sensor for gas detection, passive infrared (IR) sensor for motion detection, and flame sensor to detect fire outbreak. Arduino ATMEGA328P was used as a central controlling unit that controls the flow of system operations to achieved smart home automation system. Results: The system sends audible alarms through a buzzer to draw the user’s immediate attention. It also sends a warning message to the user’s mobile phone through the global system for mobile communication module. Conclusion: The system achieved a precision rate of 94.44% and provided a cost-effective platform for interconnecting a variety of devices and various sensors in a home through the IoT

Interoperability Framework for Smart Home Systems.

Recent advancements in smart home systems have increased the utilization of consumer devices and appliances in home environment. However, many of these devices and appliances exhibit certain degree of heterogeneity and do not adapt towards joint execution of operation. Hence, it is rather difficult to perform interoperation especially to realize desired services preferred by home users. In this paper, we propose a new intelligent interoperability framework for smart home systems execution as well as coordinating them in a federated manner. The framework core is based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technology that provides platform independent interoperation among heterogeneous systems. We have implemented the interoperability framework with several home devices to demonstrate their effectiveness for interoperation. The performance of the framework was tested in Local Area Network (LAN) environment and proves to be reliable in smart home settin

Design of a smart home system using bluetooth protocol

Abstract: Home automation is an intelligent, functional as a unit system that facilitates home processes without unnecessarily complicating the user’s life. Devices can be connected, which in turn connect and talk through a centralized control unit, which are accessible via mobile phones. These devices include lights, appliances, security systems, alarms and many other sensors and devices. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Bluetooth based smart home automation system which uses a Peripheral interface controller (PIC) microcontroller (16F1937) as the main processer and the appliances are connected to the peripheral ports of the microcontroller via relays. The circuit in the project was designed in Diptrace software. The PCB layout design was completed. The fully functional smart home prototype was built and demonstrated to functional

Design and implementation of a low-cost home automation and monitoring IoT system using message que telemetry transport protocol : South Africa context

Abstract: Home automation is a fast and growing industry in South Africa, because in recent years almost everything home and office electrical and electronics appliances are been connected to the internet and human mobile devices. There is an increase in demand of time from the working class and hence the busy time schedule. This necessitate the home automation and monitoring systems which enable homeowners to remotely monitor and control appliances in their houses and offices without being present in the device physical location. The designed system host the integrated intelligent unit functionalities that enable communication between the controller and remote end-user units of the system. It is important to ensure that home automation systems have a low cost to enable user adoption. Home automation systems should also incorporate latest technology, portability and also have internet connectivity capabilities. This paper proposes a design of low-cost home automation system that incorporates internet access and delivers internet of things (IoT) connectivity services in a smart home application. The designed system provides access to an internet connected home automation systems. The system is accessible via mobile devices and provides remote access to home appliances. In conclusion, during measurement and testing of the designed system, device full duplex connection for one round trip was less that 5seconds to relay a message packet between the transmitter subscriber device and the publisher receiver device. The performance of the designed device is satisfactory at first iteration prototype designed

Home appliances classification based on multi-feature using ELM

With the development of science and technology, the application in artificial intelligence has been more and more popular, as well as smart home has become a hot topic. And pattern recognition adapting to smart home attracts more attention, while the improvement of the accuracy of recognition is an important and difficult issue of smart home. In this paper, the characteristics of electrical appliances are extracted from the load curve of household appliances, and a fast and efficient home appliance recognition algorithm is proposed based on the advantage of classification of ELM (Extreme Learning Machine). At the same time, the sampling frequency with low rate is mentioned in this paper, which can obtain the required data through intelligent hardware directly, as well as reduce the cost of investment. And the intelligent hardware isdesigned by our team, which is wireless sensor network (WSN) composed by a lot of wireless sensors. Experiments in this paper show that the proposed method can accurately determine theusing electrical appliances. And greatly improve the accuracy of identification, which can further improve the popularity of smart home

Analysis and Design in an Intelligent Home Appliances Control System

随着计算机技术、通信技术和电子技术的发展，人们生活水平的提高和生活节奏的加快，对家居环境的舒适性、高效性和节能环保的要求不断提高，传统的家用电器控制方法已无法满足生活的需求。本文主要在传统家电的基础上，分析基于Android平台的家电智能控制系统的体系结构、家庭网关服务器和客户端软件的设计。 本文的主要研究内容是：首先，详细分析家电智能控制系统国内外研究情况、系统的可行性、功能性需求和非功能性需求。其次，设计了家电智能控制系统的总体结构。硬件方面选用了三星的S3C6410作为核心处理器，ZigBee无线网络技术为家庭内部网络，CC2530处理器为ZigBee的协调器和家电设备终端节点的核心模...With the development of computer, communications, and electronic technologies, the living standard becomes higher, and the pace of life becomes faster. In the view of an ever-increasing demand for a comfortable, efficient, energy-saving, and green home environment, traditional household appliances control can no longer make people satisfied. This dissertation mainly analyzes the design of the arch...学位：工程硕士院系专业：软件学院_工程硕士(软件工程)学号：X201323214

Communication unit for intelligent home appliances

Bakalárska práca sa venuje objasneniu problematiky PLC a využitiu nadobudnutých vedomostí pri návrhu PLC modemu. Za úlohu má hlavne zozbierať potrebné podklady a teoretické znalosti o PLC, ktoré budú slúžiť pre návrh funkčného úzkopásmového PLC modemu. Ten bude komunikovať a riadiť zariadenia, pripojené v sieti a obsluhovať spotrebiče, senzory a iné zariadenia v takzvanom inteligentnom dome. Tento návrh je vypracovaný predovšetkým s ohľadom na cenu, dostupnosť a finálne parametre zariadenia.Bachelor’s thesis is devoted to clarify the issue of PLC. The main task is to gather the necessary theoretical knowledge about PLC, which will be then used to design functional narrowband modem. It will interact with and manage devices connected to the network and use appliances, sensors and other devices in the so called smart house. This project is made particularly with regard to price, availability and final device parameters.