Customary homes to smart homes using Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile application
01 Aug 2017-
TL;DR: The design of smart home automation framework that utilizes the combination of cloud networking and wireless communication, to remote control various electrical appliances, to users within their home using a smart phone is presented.
Abstract: With an exponential advancement of automation technology, the future of manual systems are changing into automatic systems for various benefits. Also, internet has become an integral part of one's life where Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest and emerging internet technology that has changed the way one looks at things. Internet of things is developing everyday from small scale machines to large scale machines that can share data and accomplish tasks while individuals are occupied with other activities. The main aim of the paper is to design a smart home automation system using IoT, that is to turn a customary home to a smart home for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. To be specific, we aim to design a low cost, extensible, flexible wireless smart home automation system using IoT which employs the integration of wireless communication, cloud networking to provide users to control a variety of devices from remote locations by providing an user friendly interface and ease of installation. This paper presents the design of smart home automation framework that utilizes the combination of cloud networking and wireless communication, to remote control various electrical appliances (like lights, fans), to users within their home using a smart phone. The system will automatically control appliances on the basis of sensors' data by constantly monitoring the home environment and storing sensor data onto the cloud. To exhibit the possibility and adequacy of our framework, electrical appliances (like lights, fans) and sensors have been incorporated within the proposed home control system.
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19 Feb 2021
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of research work on the existing technologies and applications of IoT in residential and commercial buildings and results show that the commercial building sector has received more attention compared to the residential building sector.
Abstract: Residential and commercial buildings are undergoing a dramatic change, and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are shaping the future of these buildings. Researchers have recently utilized IoT in a variety of applications and settings to transfer conventional buildings into smart, efficient, and secure buildings. While functional IoT approaches have been developed, there is still a need for improvement in IoT applications and operations to understand the full potential of this technology. This improvement can properly be done by bridging the gaps of the current literature to provide a building block for future studies. The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of research work on the existing technologies and applications of IoT in residential and commercial buildings. For residential buildings, studies are divided to three major categories of home automation, intelligent energy management systems, and healthcare facilities. For commercial buildings, the current literature is divided to four categories of office buildings, healthcare facilities, educational buildings, and restaurants and retail facilities. Based on the review of each category, the trends, current benefits and risks, and future challenges of the IoT implementation in the built environments are identified and discussed. In particular, integration of various IoT technologies with different capabilities, data storage and processing, and privacy and security risks are identified as the main challenges for IoT implementation. In addition, our results show that the commercial building sector has received more attention compared to the residential building sector. By providing the directions for future research opportunities, this paper benefits IoT developers and researchers to properly identify their work boundaries and define their contributions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comparative study of recent advances in smart home development and present the main trends in this field, and provide an outlook on the wide spectrum of the proposed solutions.
Abstract: The advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) provide several chances to develop a variety of innovations supporting smart home users in several industries including healthcare, energy management, etc. Ubiquitous support by intelligent appliances at modern homes, which constantly work to gather information can help us to solve everyday issues. In this article, we present a comparative study of recent advances in smart home development. The study aims to present the main trends in this field. During the analysis of the research reports and patents, we identify the propositions that constitute the main research streams. Through extensive analysis, we provide an outlook on the wide spectrum of the proposed solutions. We also analyze the main market to present which publishers are leading with the innovative science in this field. We also show the leaders of science and technology in the World. Finally, we define the ratio of the developments and outline the next stage of the development in the smart home industry.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a cloud-based intelligent home automation system using a support vector machine algorithm to classify the features of the image captured and determine if it is that of a regular home occupant or an intruder before sending an alarm to the user.
Abstract: The smart home is now an established area of interest and research that contributes to comfort in modern homes. With the Internet being an essential part of broad communication in modern life, IoT has allowed homes to go beyond building to interactive abodes. In many spheres of human life, the IoT has grown exponentially, including monitoring ecological factors, controlling the home and its appliances, and storing data generated by devices in the house in the cloud. Smart home includes multiple components, technologies, and devices that generate valuable data for predicting home and environment activities. This work presents the design and development of a ubiquitous, cloud-based intelligent home automation system. The system controls, monitors, and oversees the security of a home and its environment via an Android mobile application. One module controls and monitors electrical appliances and environmental factors, while another module oversees the home’s security by detecting motion and capturing images. Our work uses a camera to capture images of objects triggered by their motion being detected. To avoid false alarms, we used the concept of machine learning to differentiate between images of regular home occupants and those of an intruder. The support vector machine algorithm is proposed in this study to classify the features of the image captured and determine if it is that of a regular home occupant or an intruder before sending an alarm to the user. The design of the mobile application allows a graphical display of the activities in the house. Our work proves that machine learning algorithms can improve home automation system functionality and enhance home security. The work’s prototype was implemented using an ESP8266 board, an ESP32-CAM board, a 5 V four-channel relay module, and sensors.
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TL;DR: 63 research papers that examined smart home safety and security systems using the Arduino platform from popular literature databases were thoroughly surveyed and extracted useful data to answer many research questions concerning state-of-the-art applications of these systems.
Abstract: Smart home safety and security systems have gained much importance over the last few years owing to their notable impact in reducing and preventing losses in resources and human life caused by unwanted situations that could occur while homeowners are far away from their homes. To date, there is a lack of an in-depth literature analysis that could help researchers and developers better understand these systems and their applications in different contexts. It is therefore crucial that research evidence published in this area is presented. In this study, 63 research papers that examined smart home safety and security systems using the Arduino platform from popular literature databases were thoroughly surveyed to extract useful data. Then, the extracted data were analyzed to answer many research questions concerning state-of-the-art applications of these systems, their architectures, their enabling technologies, their components, etc. In addition, several challenges that these systems currently face and how future research could enable better implementation and use of these systems were discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an evolution of an SECS architecture called SmartCom, with the implementation of accurate identification of electrical equipment through Near Field Communication (NFC)-based SO (data transfer between the appliance and the Smart Outlet) and of multiple inhabitants through Wi-Fi handover using smartphones, achieving a rebalanced residential energy consumption 87.3% of the time it was used.
Abstract: Smart Energy Control Systems (SECS) has been increasingly implemented in the Smart homes scenario, due to the possibility of conditioning and controlling residential energy consumption, thus contributing to reducing energy losses and unnecessary electrical consumption. With the evolution of embedded systems in conjunction with the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Outlet (SO), and devices that promote the Users Indoor Identification (UII) environments, they have assumed fundamental roles in the acquisition of data from electrical devices and also in the mapping of the individualized consumption of each resident throughout the day, providing essential information for SECS Systems as a way to assist in energy balance with minimal impact on the daily usability of electrical equipment. However, in most of the works that propose these types of assistance to SECS based on SO and UII, they have a massive implementation of sensors throughout the residence, misinterpretation of the data generated by the residents, difficulty in the identification of multiple residents. Thus, the present work proposes an evolution of an SECS architecture called SmartCom, with the implementation of accurate identification of electrical equipment through Near Field Communication (NFC)-based SO (data transfer between the appliance and the SO) and of multiple inhabitants through Wi-Fi handover using smartphones, with the least possible impact on the user’s comfort, as well as in the building structure, achieving a rebalanced residential energy consumption 87.3% of the time it was used.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communicat ion protocol to monitor and control the home environment with more than just the switching functionality.
Abstract: Th is paper presents a low cost and flexib le home control and monitoring system using an embedded micro-web server, with IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communicat ion protocol to monitor and control the home environment with more than just the switching functionality. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this system, devices such as light switches, power p lug, temperature sensor and current sensor have been integrated with the proposed home control system.
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01 Dec 2015
TL;DR: IoT is discussed and how it can be used for realizing smart home automation using a micro-controller based Arduino board and Android mobile app and two prototypes namelyHome automation using Bluetooth in an indoor environment and home automation in an outdoor environment are presented.
Abstract: Availability of high speed mobile networks like 3G and Long Term Evolution(LTE) coupled with cheaper and accessible smart phones, mobile industry has seen a tremendous growth in terms of providing various services and applications at the finger tips of the citizens. Internet of Things(IoT) is one of the promising technologies which can be used for connecting, controlling and managing intelligent objects which are connected to Internet through an IP address. Applications ranging from smart governance, smart education, smart agriculture, smart health care, smart homes etc can use IoT for effective delivery of services with out manual intervention in a more effective manner. This paper discusses about IoT and how it can be used for realizing smart home automation using a micro-controller based Arduino board and Android mobile app. In this paper, two prototypes namely home automation using Bluetooth in an indoor environment and home automation using Ethernet in an outdoor environment are presented.
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: Algorithm to save the energy of lights and air conditioners of the entire home is implemented and energy consumption before and after implementation of system model has been calculated which showed that a total of 20.78% energy has been saved.
Abstract: Internet of Things is the internetworking of devices such as heart monitoring, automobiles with built-in sensors, environmental monitoring, home automation and lightning that enable these devices to gather, communicate, share, receive, and transfer data over a network. The Internet of Things is about making the surrounding environment smart including the buildings used for living beings like homes and hospitals. In this paper, various sensors are deployed in home such as motion sensors, luminance sensors and temperature sensors, is discussed. Algorithm to save the energy of lights and air conditioners of the entire home is also implemented in this paper. Energy consumption before and after implementation of system model has been calculated which showed that a total of 20.78% energy has been saved.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: An effective implementation of (IoT) Internet of Things used for monitoring regular domestic appliances and the description about the integrated network architecture, measurement of parameters and transmission of data via internet is being presented.
Abstract: In this paper, we present an effective implementation of (IoT) Internet of Things used for monitoring regular domestic appliances. Internet of things is growing network of everyday object from industrial machine to consumer goods that can share information and complete tasks while you are busy with other activities. The description about the integrated network architecture, measurement of parameters and transmission of data via internet is being presented.
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TL;DR: The prototype UGV, developed for the military purpose, is built to undertake missions like border patrol, surveillance and in active combat both as a standalone unit (automatic) as well as in co-ordination with human soldiers (manual).
Abstract: this paper illustrates the prototype Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) developed for the military purpose. There are four different modes to control UGV: command controlled mode, self-controlled mode, gesture controlled mode and raptor controlled mode. Our prototype UGV is built to undertake missions like border patrol, surveillance and in active combat both as a standalone unit (automatic) as well as in co-ordination with human soldiers (manual). A person from a remote place can comfortably control the motion of the robot wirelessly (manual mode) and in situations where manual control is not prudent, the vehicle is capable of reaching the pre-programmed destination on its own (automatic mode). In few other cases, UGV can use gesture mode and raptor mode. The complete set up and working of the UGV are described in the paper.
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