DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF IOT SWITCH WITH MANUAL OVERRIDE

Abstract

Today internet is the widest platform used by humans which connects people to people, but various researches have been carried out to connect machines to internet on a cloud platform. These are collectively called as Internet of Things (IoT). IoT helps to control and monitor the machines in factory, but later it is also used in home automation to connect household electrical devices like fans and lights. Each device will have their own control medium to access them and monitor them which makes the user, a tedious process to track them. There arises a need of, connecting all the devices and operating them in a common platform. Accessing the main supply of the appliances and turning ON/OFF that supply will be a suitable solution to control any range of applications. Hence, smart switch is becoming more popular now- a-days. But, most of the smart switches replace manual switching and goes for complete software-based switching. This makes the user to rely on the software/application all the time to control the device, even though the user is near the device. In order to solve these problems, in the proposed method a smart switch which follows the manual toggling action of conventional rocking switches to turn them ON/OFF manually and also provide access through remote applications to turn ON/OFF them through a mobile application.