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

Development of wireless and intelligent home automation system

The Intelligent Home Automation System (IHAS) is usually a cell phone web-based application that enables end users in order to keep track of in addition to manage home/office appliance using their mobile system. The main objective of this system is developed to facilitate home users, especially domestic electrical appliances with simple controls. In addition, it can save the cost of electricity for lighting can be controlled to suit the user. Generally, most home appliances controlled from a distance using a remote control. Has created a system for controlling home lighting from a certain distance, which replaces the remote control using mobile smartphone. To make the smartphone to function as a remote control, an application was developed using Android technology. App Inventor software used for designing applications intended. Hardware microcontroller Arduino UNO R3 which is used to connect the smartphone to the electrical equipment. The system has been tested by developing a mini model and take into account the situation in the domestic home. The test is based on the level of control for wirelessly using Bluetooth and the distance between the lamp and the smartphone. The results of this test, the system can be used on equipment or other home appliances for the purpose of controlling or adjustment. In addition, the security system was also highlighted in a typical system, using the global system for mobile (GSM), it can be warned and notified to the consumer where there is a gas leak or the presence of a person in the vicinity of the residence

End-to-end security in embedded system for modern mobile communication technologies

Modern mobile electronic devices such as smartphones or cell phones can now be used for distant devices such as technical systems to monitor and control. While surveillance systems do not require high standards navigating about the time of transfer of the displayed data. More real-time data are needed for a remote mobile robot transfer. Therefore, it has investigated and measured not only the possibilities of employing mobile devices. But also, the supported data transmission channels, such as UMTS, GSM, Wireless LAN, and Bluetooth. The remotecontrol system is used in many applications such as smart homes, cities, smart hospitals, etc., but it must be today updated to ensure fast-changing technology. Extensive coverage, remote control, and reliable operation in realtime in the deployment of wireless security knowledge. The home automation control system delivers significant features together with a user-friendly interface. A secure remote-based end-to-end security system NTMobile, a technique that enables NAT to provide transverse and encrypted communication from end to end. This confirmed that evaluating the performance of the system in the ECHONET lite compatible smartphone ecosystem. This gives flexibility in configuring time-sensitive industrial networks and enables them to be secured. A safe and reliable remote-control system is also conceivable under the privacy of the user

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

Development of voice control and home security for smart home automation

This paper presents a remote development of voice control and home security for smart home automation system using Arduino mega, GSM SIM900A, Bluetooth module, and HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor. A microcontroller is programmed to control up to four home appliances via Bluetooth technology and transmit the received signal from sensor to user smartphone. Nowadays, there have been many commercials and research projects on smart homes but most of these products utilize remote control which have button on touch screen. In addition, there is also a need to give supporting system for people especially to the elderly, disabled, and increase their home security. Hence, we proposed a development of a wireless remote control for home gadgets which can be controlled with voice. This proposed system is expected to recognize human voice using voice reader android application to turn on and off home appliance. Another important feature developed in this project is on the detection of movement, using ultrasonic sensor, in which the signal is converted to message and forwarded to the mobile user via GSM module. The accuracy of the system is found to be above 95% and the electrical loads have been successfully controlled using voice command in controlling their home. In order for the system to work, it is necessary to power up Arduino Mega by 12V DC adaptor and connecting all AC power loads to the electricity. In this project, the proposed prototype of smart home automation system is implemented and tested on hardware so the user can control certain number of home appliances using voice

Remote Control and Monitoring of Smart Home Facilities via Smartphone with Wi-Fly

Due to the widespread ownership of smartphone devices, the application of mobile technologies to enhance the monitoring and control of smart home facilities has attracted much academic attention. This study indicates that tools already in the possession of the end user can be a significant part of the specific context-aware system in the smart home. The behaviour of the system in the context of existing systems will reflect the intention of the client. This model system offers a diverse architectural concept for Wireless Sensor Actuator Mobile Computing in a Smart Home (WiSAMCinSH) and consists of sensors and actuators in various communication channels, with different capacities, paradigms, costs and degree of communication reliability. This paper focuses on the utilization of end users’ smartphone applications to control home devices, and to enable monitoring of the context-aware environment in the smart home to fulfil the needs of the ageing population. It investigates the application of an iPhone to supervise smart home monitoring and control electrical devices, and through this approach, after initial setup of the mobile application, a user can control devices in the smart home from different locations and over various distances

Integration of mobile devices in home automation with use of machine learning for object recognition

The number of smart homes is increasingly expanding, with even more connected devices and available control options. Mobile devices have unfortunately been up to now generally regarded as mere remote controls in these environments. This paper addresses this shortcoming, by presenting a novel integration architecture and prototype where the potential of mobile devices sensors can be better explored in home automation platforms, in particular by detecting objects in the information collected by their cameras that subsequently allow for users to interact with them in an intuitive way. The detection is performed at the mobile side, using a lightweight machine learning solution. The obtained accuracy and processing time are comparable to that obtained at server side. But the advantage here is that the interactive experience of users can be dramatically improved, with the absence of round-trip time required if server processing would be used.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Implementation of Wi-Ap; An IEEE 802.11b/g Based Electrical Switch Module With Web Enabled Interface for Electrical Appliances Control

The aim of this research study is to design and implement a Wi-Fi-based control panel for remote control of lights and electrical appliances with a web functionality that allows for wide area control via the intranet or Internet. This eliminates the inconvenience of moving from one switch to another for analog operation of light fixtures and appliance in home, office and campus environment. The wireless technology we adopted is IEEE 802.11 (2008) b/g, also called Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) which operates in free band and is easily accessible. Wi-Ap (Wi-Fi Automated Appliance) control system contains a web portal which allows for management and control purposes via the intranet or Internet. We built a standalone Wi-Ap console that allows the wireless switching on and off of any appliance(s) that is(are) ) plugged into it. The prototype we built was tested within the Electrical and Information Engineering department, Covenant University, Nigeria intranet and the test achieved our aim of remote appliances control from a web portal vial the intranet