Wireless Home Electrical Appliances Monitoring And Control Using Android Mobile Application

Nur Naimah, Zainal (2015) Wireless Home Electrical Appliances Monitoring And Control Using Android Mobile Application. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The aim of this project is to design an Android application based on wireless home automation system. The concept of smart home is an emerging issue to the modern technology dependent society. Remote control technologies are widely used to control household electronic appliances without walking up to them. The open-source hardware development Arduino has been growing up in recent years. Arduino platform has good specifications, cheap, easy to use and wide varieties of shields may emerge with many different purposes. This project is divided into two main parts which are the parent and child node. Arduino Uno microcontroller and Ethernet Shield are used to implement the parent node design. In addition, parent node is the home server which establishes the wireless communication between the smartphone with child nodes of the system. Meanwhile the child node is designed based on Arduino Uno connected through Ethernet and prototype LEDs to indicate home appliances. Next, the parent node will send an instruction to establish wireless communication between android phone and the parent node. This android application is designed to offer a user friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for remotely controlling home appliances through web server via Android anywhere or everywhere around the world. An application that automatically enable the controller to take any further action such as to switch ON and OFF the home appliances such as light, air-conditioner, and fan are one of the most desirable nowadays. MIT App Inventor 2 software was utilized to accomplish the integration of android application and Arduino IDE is used to widely integrate the whole system including home server using Local Internet Protocol written in HTML language. Upon controlling appliances, notification status which indicates the received instruction are automatically acknowledge user upon current status of the devices. The prototype has been successfully developed and it could provide an effective mechanism in utilizing controllable wireless home appliances onto everyone’s smartphone.

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