Enhanced home automation system using Internet of Things

Abstract

The more the technology advances into the future, the more it makes the life of people depending on it easier and one of such technologies is Automation. The term Automation can be coupled with-no effort, ease of performing a task and less human involvement. Internet of Things is such other term which envisions every object around us as an integral part of the Internet. In this paper, we suggest a highly intractable and environmentally sustainable form of Home Automation System using Internet of Things a means to control the appliances at home via a device with access to the Internet. The key components of this system are a pocket sized microprocessor-Raspberry Pi and a microcontroller-Arduino Uno and an Android application to visualize the data provided by the Raspberry Pi and also to send, receive and process the requests. The Raspberry Pi acts as the brain of this system, processing the requests, responding to the requests made by the Android application, communicating with the Arduino and also acts as a server to store the data given by the sensors. All the sensors and actuators are connected to the Arduino which is connected to the Pi using a USB cable. Our main objective of developing this model is to create a home automation system which interacts with the user through various push notifications based on concerned parameters which is also eco-friendly.