Controlling Electrical Appliances using Bluetooth & J2ME-enabled Mobile Phone

This project focuses on the development of a universal remote control system that utilizes the use of Bluetooth and Java technology on mobile phones in controlling electrical appliances. The remote control does not confine to the physical barriers that are normally found at home like the typical IrDA remote controls. The system suggests the usage of Bluetooth technology in order to solve and expand the capability of the IrDA remote control technology that is still being widely used. This is also due to the fact that almost all electrical devices and appliances come with their own proprietary remote control. By having a universal remote control, it is possible to eliminate the need for such many remote controls at home. From the client application point of view, the user interface is constructed using Java 2 Mobile Edition as it is being supported by many mobile phones instead of other of different architectures. From the mobile phone, users are able to connect to the Bluetooth server that then interacts with the circuit where the electronic components reside. Immediate direct manipulation of the circuit is crucial as remote control system is one of the real time systems and it needs to be updated as soon as the state of appliances is modified. As a result, this project was developed using Bluez in Linux, for the server part; and Nokia 6230 Series 40 cell phone for the client application. In a nutshell, the end product gives flexibility to the users by promoting the usage of their mobile phones as a universal remote control for their electrical appliances

FM and Web Based Solution: A Novel Approach to Monitor and Control Home Appliances using Mobile Phone

The capacity of controlling various electrical and electronics devices in a wireless and remote fashion has provided a great convenience to many people in life. Through a wireless distant control system, people can do remote operation without directly accessing the host of home appliances like fan, lamp, TV, washing machines and others. Pocket switch is one of these types of system which we can use to control home appliances smartly from anywhere. The main objective of this work is to make such a system which controls the home appliances remotely using Web service and FM technology from a mobile phone. This paper discusses two methods of controlling home appliances. The first one is web service based where server will generate a command to the controller computer and the second one is FM network based where server will synthesize the SMS in to speech

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

Controlling Electrical Appliances using Bluetooth & J2ME-enabled Mobile Phone

This project focuses on the development of a universal remote control system that utilizes the use of Bluetooth and Java technology on mobile phones in controlling electrical appliances. The remote control does not confine to the physical barriers that are normally found at home like the typical IrDA remote controls. The system suggests the usage of Bluetooth technology in order to solve and expand the capability of the IrDA remote control technology that is still being widely used. This is also due to the fact that almost all electrical devices and appliances come with their own proprietary remote control. By having a universal remote control, it is possible to eliminate the need for such many remote controls at home. From the client application point of view, the user interface is constructed using Java 2 Mobile Edition as it is being supported by many mobile phones instead of other of different architectures. From the mobile phone, users are able to connect to the Bluetooth server that then interacts with the circuit where the electronic components reside. Immediate direct manipulation of the circuit is crucial as remote control system is one of the real time systems and it needs to be updated as soon as the state of appliances is modified. As a result, this project was developed using Bluez in Linux, for the server part; and Nokia 6230 Series 40 cell phone for the client application. In a nutshell, the end product gives flexibility to the users by promoting the usage of their mobile phones as a universal remote control for their electrical appliances

UbiREMOTE: framework for remotely controlling networked appliances through interaction with 3D virtual space

MMSys '10 : first annual ACM SIGMM conference on Multimedia systems , Feb 22-23, 2010 , Phoenix, Arizona, USAIn this paper, we propose a framework named ``UbiREMOTE'' for controlling information appliances connected to a home network with a unified and intuitive user interface from a remote place.The UbiREMOTE framework provides users with a way to control appliances in a home through a virtual space drawn on a mobile terminal screen which reflects the latest conditions of the real appliances and the rooms in the home. With UbiREMOTE, a user controls appliances by (1) moving to the front of an appliance, (2) choosing the appliance to control and (3) pushing buttons on the virtual remote controller which imitates the real remote controller for the appliance or the real console.In this paper, we propose a method to improve the drawing speed of 3D virtual space on mobile terminals and a method for automatically reflecting condition changes of the real space in the virtual space.We implemented the methods and evaluated the performance. The results showed that the proposed methods can be practically used on small mobile terminals

Design and Construction of a Wireless Based Electrical Appliance Control System

The wireless based electrical appliance control system puts forth a system which enables users to control home appliances using mobile phone or computer with the aid of an application device, The design makes use of an efficient and low-cost technology for controlling the appliances thus minimizing the power wastage. The interface of the mobile application is used to send signals to another device connected to an 8052 microcontroller programmed to interpret the signal from the phone and control electrical loads via relays switched with transistors, the complete system operates on a 5 volts power supply which is obtained from the public mains. The design is built for the sole purpose of efficient control of electrical appliances, part of its objectives is to embed a user friendly control interface for electrical device using internet device, and it is a fast and efficient approach to control electrical appliances. The design is a viable one in the sense that it will go a long way in helping to checkmate unnecessary wastage of voltage and making it more convenient to control electrical appliances from even a remote area.Keywords: Wireless based electrical appliance control system, Microcontroller, Mobile Application, Electrical Appliance

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 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