Arduino based Smart Home Automation System

Abstract

Around the World massive quantities of energy are consumed in residential buildings leading to a negative impact on the environment. Also, the number of wireless connected devices in use around the World is constantly and rapidly increasing, leading to potential health risks due to over exposer to electromagnetic radiation. An opportunity appears to reduce the energy consumption in residential buildings by introducing smart home automation systems. Multiple such solutions are available in the market with most of them being wireless, so the challenge is to design such systems that would limit the quantity of newly generated electromagnetic radiation. For this we look at several wired, serial communication methods and we successfully test such a method using a simple protocol to exchange data between an Arduino microcontroller board and a Visual C# app running on a Windows computer. We aim to show that if desired, smart home automation systems can still be built using simple viable alternatives to wireless communication.

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Home Energy Management System for Power Saving

“…acting as Master, www.videleaf.com initiating all communication, sending instructions or data requests, and the HEMS control software acting as Slave, responding to these requests. The information exchanged between these two software programs is structured according to a specific communication protocol, as successfully developed and implemented in [34]. Data packages begin with a specific character, the exclamation mark -!‖ followed by a five-character command.…”

Implementation of Bluetooth Enabled Home Automation System

“…Okorie et al (2020) constructed a circuit for home automation using analog detectors and a cellular Bluetooth gadget as the basic control mechanisms that are controlled through wireless access to smart phones. Alot of work has also been implemented involving bluetooth and home automation (Amoran et al, 2021;Taiwo et al, 2020;Khin et al, 2019;Shawon et al, 2022;Mustafa et al, 2021;Ngerem et al, 2021;Chioran and Valean, 2020;Okubanjo et al, 2021;Shah and Mahmood, 2020;Islam et al, 2019), nevertheless, the goal of this study is to put into practice an affordable bluetooth and Arduino-based home automation system for academic research, training, and demonstration purposes only. Knowledge of the methodology used in this research may be applied to implement smart home automation and internet of things-based circuits.…”