A Wi-Fi based Architecture of a Smart Home Controlled by Smartphone and Wall Display IoT Device

Abstract

In this age of smart devices, many people are carrying a smartphone with them all the time. When they are at home, most of them are connected with the home Wi-Fi network. In this paper, a Wi-Fi network based architecture is proposed to control home appliances using a smartphone and also with a touchscreen-based wall display panel. The proposed system enables the user to control appliances from anywhere in the home without the pain of walking towards the switch panel on the wall. In this project, the mechanical switch based panel on the wall is replaced by the state-of-the-art touch-based liquid crystal display. Along with buttons, the display also shows current weather and time widgets. The smartphone app and a prototype of the display panel using Raspberry Pi with Android Things operating system is developed and tested.

Load Scheduling for Smart Home Using Day-Ahead Prediction From Artificial Neural Network (Ann)

“…As for the load scheduling, the technique used is MILP and the objective functions is to reduce electricity bills under a 24 hours TOU electricity bill tariff as in Figure 3. The objective of the optimization process is to minimize the electricity cost as formulated in (1).…”

“…The sole problem of today's power generation and distribution system is the surge in energy demand during peak hours. Companies around the world are forced to put in additional generating units to achieve this peak demand [1]. Therefore, smart home system is a necessary component of the smart power grid, which permits active participation from residential end users in reducing peak demand.…”