A Consumer-Based Smart Home with Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System

Abstract

Nowadays, home automation has become a popular trend and the demand for smart homes is rising with consumers being increasingly aware of the new technologies developed in the field of automation. While designing a home automation system, the parameters such as cost, compactness, energy efficiency, reliability, real-time implementation, and appliance scheduling play prime importance. With increasing pollution, respiratory diseases are on the rise and there is a strong need to develop a smart home system which is capable of monitoring healthy environmental conditions for its users. This research study proposes a smart system that uses a renewable source of energy, monitors and controls the overall power consumption of the home, and keeps a check on the healthy environmental conditions by measuring the level of oxygen thereby alarming when it falls below the safe limit. This research paper provides analysis of indoor air quality and health system. In addition, it measures indoor air quality using two factors: health and comfort. The proposed model is compact, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and provides a health-smart home system to the consumer.