Home Automation System with Universally Used Mobile Application Platform

Abstract

This paper describes an investigation into the potential for different mobile application on home automation systems. It considers problems with their implementation, discusses possible solutions through various Mobile application platform and different network technologies and indicates how to optimize the use of such systems. The home is an eternal, heterogeneous, distributed computing environment which certainly requires a careful study before developing any suitable Home Automation System (HAS) that will accomplish its requirements. Now a days, mobile applications made were targeted to a particular Operating System only which restricted there usability. With the limitations of above in mind there is a need of a universal mobile application development platform. So that an application can be developed in a universal XML format which can be easily ported to any other mobile devices. Home automation system on one of the Operating System and creation of a unique XML document that can be placed over the server which can be adapted by any other mobile device without any platform issues. The XML format which controls the layout of the screen remains common, only the part which needs to be coded on every platform is the downloading of the XML file from the server and parsing it. This reduces a lot of coding effort as the design part is coded only once, and the same file can be used by every other platform. All the House hold activities are controlled by a smartphone which is connected to a server containing the XML file via an internet connection. We have taken Home Automation as one of our application, but the same principle can be implemented in any other applications like Mobile Themes, Games etc.