A Connected Home Platform and Development Framework for smart home control applications

The world is moving fastly towards automation. People have less time to handle any work so automation is simple way to handle any device or machine will work to our desire. This paper aim is to develop and design a Home automation using Arduino with Bluetooth module. Home automation system gives a simple and reliable technology with Android application. Home appliances like fan, Bulb, AC, automatic door lock are controlled by Home automation system using Arduino Uno with Bluetooth module. The paper mainly focuses on the monitor and control of smart home by Andorid phone and provide a security based smart home, when the people does not present at home. This paper motive is controlled home appliances in smart home with user friendly, design at low cost, simple installation.

A smart home is being an important part of research due to its impact on the life of many people, who decide to try this partially known concept of building and controlling their houses. In this paper we present a little different approach to the implementation of a smart home structure and its methods in real environment. As a part of the work we specify main requirements on the architectural design, which should be considered in final solution. Our research is focused primarily on the use of open standards and tools. This approach became popular because it provides an alternative view in comparison to commercial ones, where mostly proprietary and publicly unknown protocols are used. According to this, three theoretical architectures are proposed and presented with their pros and cons. In the paper we concentrate mainly on the usage of SIP protocol and issues related to the communication between a remote user and a smart home. We are proposing two logical communication models. Each model describes the type of used SIP messages and their message flows. In addition, we consider financial aspects of simple and illustrative smart home solution, which as well pose issues to end users. Our solution offers implementation with minimal operational costs and high facility control of the smart home. The paper also includes a survey of potentially usable protocols for smart homes and the list of software (SW) and hardware (HW) components, which have been used to build a testing environment.

Integrating Internet of Things (IoT) technology in home control systems has led to a significant advancement in the control and monitoring of home appliances and environmental conditions. This study presents the development of an IoT-based home control system that uses the NodeMCU ESP8266 microcontroller to manage several home appliances. This system connects to a Firebase real-time database to store or retrieve data in real-time. The user interacts with the IoT system through a mobile application named My Home, developed using Java programming language, and this mobile application is also interfaced with the Firebase cloud server. The developed IoT system allows users to control home appliances such as lights, sockets, fans, and cookers, and it also provides real-time updates of environmental parameters, such as temperature and humidity, which are measured by a DHT11 sensor. In addition, a PIR motion sensor was integrated into the system to enhance the home's security by detecting intrusion. The system's hardware functionality is based on a written Arduino code, which establishes Wi-Fi connectivity to a predefined network, communicates with the Firebase database, handles appliance control and manages sensor data. This IoT-based home control system shows the potential of integrating microcontrollers with cloud services to create a smart, responsive and user-friendly home control platform. The developed IoT system offers a foundation for advancements, thereby making it a valuable contribution to the growing field of smart home technology.

Today, when technology is getting more and more progressive, there is growing demand for automation. In automation systems we can include home automation systems. Within home automation systems the most commonly embedded systems are: security system, temperature control system, lighting control system and etc. Control of these systems are most commonly realized using wireless communication. In this paper is described smart home system controlled by the ATmega2560 microcontroller. Smart home system beside microcontroller, also has a SIM900 GSM module that enables remote control of a smart home using SMS messages. The smart home security system consists of: security system based on IR sensors located on windows and security system based on password protection located at the front door. In the event of a security breach, an alarm with visual and audible warning signals is activated and an SMS message about the security breach is sent to the user. The lighting control system is controlled by SMS message. The user sends SMS messages that turn on/off lights in individual rooms of the smart home. The user also has the ability to turn on/off individual lighting groups in the smart home. The motion sensor is used to detect movement outside the smart home. When the motion sensor is activated, outdoor lighting turn on. The use of systems based on microcontrollers and GSM, according to research, represents a serious competition to earlier systems in terms of price, reliability and ease of use.

Modern smart home has secure, convenient, comfortable characteristics, and broad prospects. This article is designed and implemented based on Android smart home control system. The ARM9 of embedded operating system is used as a server, and Android smartphones as a client. The Key Technologies like components resources provided by Android, Socket Communications, SQLite database, and so on, which are used to design intelligent home control terminal software, 2.4G wireless technology used to set home interior local area network, achieve the intelligent home control systems. As it tested, the smart home system is stable, safe, reliable, easy to expand.

With the rapid development of economy, science, and technology, people have higher and higher requirements for the quality of home life, and smart home systems are required to have higher convenience and comfort. The continuous development of embedded technology, short‐range wireless communication technology, and microcontroller technology provides a new development direction for the research and development of smart home systems. Under the premise of fully studying the research status and development trend of smart home systems, this paper combines embedded technology, ZigBee wireless communication technology, voice recognition technology, GSM communication technology, etc., and proposes a ZigBee‐based smart voice home appliance control system. The system adopts ZigBee wireless communication to form a comprehensive management system for household electrical appliances, electronic and electrical equipment, etc., for household electrical control, intelligent security, and environmental monitoring. This paper designs the overall scheme of a smart home control system based on voice recognition technology. According to this scheme, the hardware and software of the system are designed, and the wireless communication method combining Wi‐Fi and RF (radio frequency) of the system is also determined. In order to make the system more humane, two sets of control schemes, voice control and button control, are designed according to the system’s functional requirements. In the voice control solution, the user first reads the control commands set in the voice library on the smart terminal, and then, the system automatically recognizes the commands read by the user. After the recognition is successful, the user can control the home appliances through the command. In the key control scheme, users can control home appliances through keys on the smart terminal. The upper computer transplants the audio library and the algorithm studied in this paper to realize the audio collection and storage, the confirmation of family members, and the recognition of voice commands; the lower computer is used for real‐time collection of environmental information and wireless control of home facilities. After the system is started, the family members are first confirmed by voice, and then, the voice command recognition result and real‐time environmental information jointly decide to form a control command. The upper computer sends the control command to the lower computer through the serial port to control the corresponding home equipment. The system is tested and analyzed under experimental conditions. The test results show that the system can control home facilities through voice commands combined with real‐time environmental information while confirming family members.

Different kinds of system components including hardware elements, software components, network connections, and sensors are required to cooperate with each other to provide various services in smart home. In recent years, we must consider how to reduce the environmental burden by energy management and to support human's life allow for a comfortable lifestyle in an aging society. This paper proposes a concept of an agent-based middleware for smart home that consists of various home electric appliances and various sensors. The agents acquire variety of information, data, etc. from the smart home environment and store/manage them in a methodical manner. In this paper, we describe the concept, design, and initial implementation based on our agent-based middleware. We implemented initial applications related to multimedia and energy management to apply for smart home.

In this paper, a variety of cloud service combinations is used to form the control core of a smart home, realize data forwarding, storage, and analysis in the cloud, and complete the remote management of smart home devices. This paper studies the secure access control of smart home data combined with the blockchain technology and password technology to realize the secure and efficient access control of smart home data. The system can achieve the goal of independent research and development. Aiming at the problem that the access control of a smart home is generally managed by third‐party authorized institutions and there is an unauthorized access, a blockchain‐based smart home (BSH) access control scheme is proposed. The scheme extends the attribute‐based access control model (ABAC) and applies the blockchain technology to the smart home ABAC model to realize fine‐grained access control. In the scheme, the resource provider first publishes the access control policy of the resource to the blockchain. If the resource visitor wants to access the resource, he needs to submit an access request to the blockchain and use an SM2 threshold signature to process the transaction proposal. The endorsement peer node in the blockchain runs the access control policy smart contract to decide whether to grant access rights. This scheme can ensure that resource providers can participate in all the processes of access control and avoid the risk of unauthorized access caused by the centralized management of the third party. Finally, the simulation experiment is carried out on the Hyperledger Fabric alliance chain development platform. The results show that the BSH access control scheme has good applicability in the smart home scenario.

With the wide application of IoT technology in daily life, the smart home industry has achieved rapid development in recent years. However, due to the different communication methods and fragmented functions between different smart home devices, this makes users face higher complexity in management and use. The goal of the smart home management and control platform is to integrate the data monitoring and control functions of multiple devices in a heterogeneous network environment to provide one-stop home services. However, in the face of problems such as coordination between devices, numerous environmental parameters and difficult to accurately identify user needs, how to build a unified management and control system that is imperceptible, accurate and intelligent has become a core problem to be solved in the process of smart home platformization. The system not only can be used for normal residential home user, but also can be used for hotel and other subsystems. The system realizes the remote control of appliances combine locality control the results show that the system hardware is simple, lower cost, reliability and easy to expand.

Modern home furnishings have solved the most basic housing problems, but how to make homes more informatized and modern has become the focus of people’s growing concern. With the rapid development of information technology, improving the intelligent level of family life and modern lifestyle is bound to be the trend of future development. This paper studies a smart home control system based on wireless sensor network positioning, which can perceive the home environment through the sensor module, and the control module can automatically control common electrical appliances to achieve real-time data monitoring and alarm functions. Specifically, it includes a positioning module, a communication module, and a server: the positioning module is connected to the server through the communication module, and the positioning module is used to obtain user location information in real time and report user location information to the server at intervals. The server receives the user reported at intervals through the communication module. Location information and remotely control smart home devices based on user location information. The research results show that the method proposed in this paper can separately monitor each part of the home and send it to the home appliance control module through the server to control the home appliance, optimize the living environment, and realize the remote control and monitoring of the smart home.

With the improvement of people's living standards, smart home is becoming more and more popular. Smart home is based on the residential, integrated a variety of modern advanced technologies such as wiring technology, centralized processing technology, network communication and other technologies will achieve integrated processing of various facilities in life. In contemporary society, people have higher and higher requirements for the quality of life, and the use of Programmable logic controller (PLC) to control smart homes has become popular. This paper draws on the traditional use of PLC to control the temperature and humidity of the greenhouse and the concentration of carbon dioxide, and considers the use of PLC to realize the control of smart home. The design uses PLC programmable controller to control the temperature and humidity of smart home life, making life more intelligent.

Current home security and automation systems are typically structured as a collection of sensors and actuators connected to a local home controller. While new and more capable sensors are driving increasingly sophisticated applications such as video surveillance that require significant computing resources, home controllers are often resource-constrained devices that are not easy to upgrade or replace at scale. To address these limitations, we present a new Cloud-Enhanced Home Controller (CEHC) architecture where the resources of the local home controller are augmented with external cloud resources accessed over the network. While such cloud offloading has been studied in the context of other resource-constrained devices such as mobile phones, we posit that home control applications pose a new set of requirements unique to this domain. Here, we describe these requirements, propose an application ecosystem that enables the seamless use of both local and remote resources, and describe a decision engine that schedules applications under constraints imposed by the home controller, the network, and the costs associated with the cloud service provider.

Smart homes are ones that have an intelligent environment that enables dynamic configuration of its devices as well as interaction with its occupants, be it while they are inside the home or remotely while outside. This paper outlines the major technologies that support the realisation of smart homes. It describes the complete architecture and design of a prototype smart home system that integrates a variety of wireless information and communication technologies with a variety of sensors and appliances. The prototype system enables an authorised user to monitor and control home devices equipped with a smart interface structure using a mobile phone. The system is embedded with authentication and verification mechanisms that provide secure end-to-end processing. The system is scalable through a flexible architecture that easily expands the portfolio of devices to be monitored and controlled.

In smart homes, access-control policies increasingly depend on contexts, such as who is taking an action, whether there is an emergency, or whether an adult is nearby. The vast literature on context sensing could potentially be leveraged to support contextual access control, yet this literature mostly ignores attacks, adversaries, and privacy. In this paper, we reevaluate the literature on home context sensing through a security and privacy mindset. We first describe a novel threat model in smart homes focusing on the capabilities of non-technical adversaries. Replay, imitation, and shoulder-surfing attacks are much more likely in this model. We summarize contexts relevant to access control in homes, mapping them to existing sensors. We then systematize the sensing literature to construct a decision framework for home context sensing that considers security, privacy, and usability. Applying our framework, we find that current sensors do not fully mitigate likely threats in homes. Some sensors are susceptible to simple threats like physical denial-of-service attacks, making it easy to bypass policies relying on the absence of a characteristic. Many sensors collect more data than needed and are not effective for all groups of users or under all situations.

The paper presents a smart home system using relatively easily accessible resources and characterized by reasonable prices, such as Raspberry Pi3, WeMos-D1 board and Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS). The developed solution is also characterized by several advantages related to its maintenance over time, as well as the existence of facilities in use for the people living in such a smart home, whether they are old persons or have certain disabilities. The purpose of the present research was to achieve a centralized control system of the various devices in the smart home under the control of the IGSS. In particular, the aim was to minimize physical wiring and the predominant use of wireless networks, the permanent remote control of all domestic devices and appliances, as well as monitoring of their current operating status.