This paper presents a flexible standalone, low-cost smart home system, which is based on the Android app communicating with the micro-web server providing more than the switching functionalities. The Arduino Ethernet is used to eliminate the use of a personal computer (PC) keeping the cost of the overall system to a minimum while voice activation is incorporated for switching functionalities. Devices such as light switches, power plugs, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, current sensors, intrusion detection sensors, smoke/gas sensors and sirens have been integrated in the system to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed smart home system. The smart home app is tested and it is able to successfully perform the smart home operations such as switching functionalities, automatic environmental control and intrusion detection, in the later case where an email is generated and the siren goes on.

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Ubiquitous Smart Home System Using Android Application

This paper presents a design and prototype implementation of new home automation system that uses WiFi technology as a network infrastructure connecting its parts. The proposed system consists of two main components; the first part is the server (web server), which presents system core that manages, controls, and monitors users' home. Users and system administrator can locally (LAN) or remotely (internet) manage and control system code. Second part is hardware interface module, which provides appropriate interface to sensors and actuator of home automation system. Unlike most of available home automation system in the market the proposed system is scalable that one server can manage many hardware interface modules as long as it exists on WiFi network coverage. System supports a wide range of home automation devices like power management components, and security components. The proposed system is better from the scalability and flexibility point of view than the commercially available home automation systems. Keywords—Home automation, Wireless LAN, WiFi, MicroControllers

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Design and Implementation of a WiFi Based Home Automation System

Security has becoming an important issue everywhere. Home security is becoming necessary nowadays as the possibilities of intrusion are increasing day by day. Safety from theft, leaking of raw gas and fire are the most important requirements of home security system for people. A traditional home security system gives the signals in terms of alarm. However, the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) based security systems provides enhanced security as whenever a signal from sensor occurs, a text message is sent to a desired number to take necessary actions. This paper suggests two methods for home security system. The first system uses web camera. Whenever there is a motion in front of the camera, it gives security alert in terms of sound and a mail is delivered to the owner. The second method sends SMS which uses GSMGPS Module (sim548c) and Atmega644p microcontroller, sensors, relays and buzzers.

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Design and Implementation of Security Systems for Smart Home based on GSM technology

With the widespread use of e-business coupled with the public's awareness of data privacy issues and recent database security related legislations, incorporating security features into modern database products has become an increasingly important topic. Several database vendors already offer integrated solutions that provide data privacy within existing products. However, treating security and privacy issues as an afterthought often results in inefficient implementations. Some notable RDBMS storage models (such as the N-ary Storage Model) suffer from this problem. In this work, we analyze issues in storage security and discuss a number of trade-offs between security and efficiency. We then propose a new secure storage model and a key management architecture which enable efficient cryptographic operations while maintaining a very high level of security. We also assess the performance of our proposed model by experimenting with a prototype implementation based on the well-known TPC-H data set.

A framework for efficient storage security in RDBMS

Automation plays an important role in today's human life and people's life is gradually changing with smart living due to modern technology development and Android Smartphone. This paper presents a low-cost Smart Living System, which uses Android based User Interface for control of home appliances. Connection to the smart living system can be made from the designed app via Bluetooth or internet connection. It also integrates home security and alert system.

Android based smart home system with control via Bluetooth and internet connectivity

This paper mainly focuses on the controlling of home appliances remotely and providing security when the user is away from the place. The system is SMS based and uses wireless technology to revolutionize the standards of living. This system provides ideal solution to the problems faced by home owners in daily life. The system is wireless t herefore more adaptable and cost-effective. The HACS system provides security against intrusion as well as automates various home appliances using SMS. The system uses GSM technology thus providing ubiquitous access to the system for security and automated appliance control.

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SMS Based Wireless Home Appliance Control System (HACS) for Automating Appliances and Security

With the repaid advancement of computer technology, the use of computer-based technologies is increasing in different fields of life. Image segme ntation is an important problem in different fields of image processing and computer vision. Ima ge segmentation is the process of dividing images according to its characteristic e.g., color and objects present in the images. Different methods are presented for image segmentation. The focus of this study is the watershed segmentation. The tool used in this study is MATLAB. Good result of watershed segmentation entirely relay on the image contrast. Image contrast may be degraded during image acquisition. Watershed algorithm can generate over segmentation or under segmentation on badly contrast images. In order to reduce these deficiencies of watershed algorithm a preprocessing step using Random Walk method is performed on input images. Random Walk method is a probabilistic approach, which improves the image contrast in the way image is degraded.

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Modified Watershed Algorithm for Segmentation of 2D Images

The use of web services has dominated software industry. Existing technologies of web services are extended to give value added customized services to customers through composition. Automated web service composition is a very challenging task. This paper proposed the solution of existing problems and proposed a technique by combination of interface based and functionality based rules. The proposed framework also solves the issues related to unavailability of updated information and inaccessibility of web services from repository/databases due to any fault/failure. It provides updated information problem by adding aging factor in repository/WSDB (Web Services Database) and inaccessibility is solved by replication of WSDB. We discussed data distribution techniques and proposed our framework by using one of these strategies by considering quality of service issues. Finally, our algorithm eliminates the dynamic service composition and execution issues, supports web service composition considering QoS (Quality of Service), efficient data retrieval and updation, fast service distribution and fault tolerance.

QoS Based Dynamic Web Services Composition & Execution

the main concern in systems development is the
integration of technologies to increase customer satisfaction.
Research presented in this paper focuses mainly in three things
first to understand the speech or voice of user second is to control
the home appliances through voice call and third is to finds
intrusion in the house. The user can make a voice call in order to
perform certain actions such as switching lights on/off, getting the
status of any appliance etc. And when system finds intrusion it
sends an alert voice message to preconfigured cell when the user
is away from the place. The proposed system is implemented
using voice Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
and wireless technology based on .NET framework and Attention
(AT) commands. Microsoft speech reorganization engine, speech
SDK 5.1 is used to understand the voice command of user. As it is
wireless so more cost effective and easy to use. The GSM
technology used in system provide the everywhere access of the system for security. Experimental results show that the system is more secure and cost effective as compared to existing systems. We conclude that this system provides solution for the problems faced by home owner in daily life and make their life easy and comfortable by proposing cost effective and reliable solution.

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Controlling Home Appliances Remotely Through Voice Command

Password is a key to secret authentication data and is most widely used for security purposes therefore it is open to attacks such as phishing attack. Phishing is a form of internet fraud, which phisher applies to steal online consumer's personal identity data and financial account credentials. In this paper, we analyze a technique of password hashing, to compute secure passwords. Using this mechanism, we can obtain hash value by applying a cryptographic hash function to a string consisting of the submitted password and, usually, another value known as a salt. The salt value consists of current parameters of the system and prevents attackers from building a list of hash values for common passwords. MD5 and SHA1 are frequently used cryptographic hash functions. We implemented these algorithms and found that SHA-1 is more secure but slow in execution as SHA-1 includes more rounds than MD5 in calculating hashes.

Aihab Khan

Papers

SMS Based Wireless Home Appliance Control System (HACS) for Automating Appliances and Security

Modified Watershed Algorithm for Segmentation of 2D Images

QoS Based Dynamic Web Services Composition & Execution

Controlling Home Appliances Remotely Through Voice Command

Analysis of password login phishing based protocols for security improvements