Low-Cost and Energy-Efficient Smart Home Security and Automation

Abstract

With the advancement of technology, smart home systems are developing rapidly. In the recent years, the world’s centralized principle is to automate each conceivable thing for simplicity in life, providing security, saving electricity, and time. With the development of technology, many research projects have been developed regarding smart home automation to improve lifestyle of human. Smart home automation is an emerging concept that allures the synergy of several areas of engineering and science. A smart home automation, which is smart, is the technology used to make all electronic equipment around the home act smart or intelligent; that is to say, smart home has highly advanced automatic systems for lighting, temperature control, security, and continuous monitoring. Smart home systems incorporate a communication network that integrates new technologies for improving human’s quality of living as well as connects the electronic and electrical appliances by allowing them to be remotely monitored, controlled, and accessed. The research work carried out deals with the idea of implementing an interactive home automation and security system using a low-cost flexible home control monitoring system developed using Raspberry Pi with Internet connectivity for accessing and controlling devices by means of smart home application. The project is combined with both hardware and software technologies for multiplatform control system. The implemented system can be regarded as comfortable, secured, economic, energy-efficient, flexible, and reliable.