Smart Homes Using Android

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to develop a simple and cost efficient home automation system with an Android application which would act as a remote and make at most use of all the appliances that can be connected which would help to simplify daily life. The idea of conserving electricity means to avoid wasting it and its minimum utilization. This means doing simple things like turning off the electrical appliance when any person is about to leave the room etc. The biggest motivation for the people to conserve electricity is for the accumulated savings in their energy bills at the end of the year. Now a days due to the Unplugging of fans and lights when it is not in use, most of the energies are wasted. This is happened mainly because most of the switches are located far away from the users. Modern houses are gradually shifting to centralized control system, involving wireless controlled switches. Basically, every single appliance in your house can be controlled using a remote device. Android based E-home is an application of embedded system which integrates Android operating system, Arduino controller and the Bluetooth for the implementation of Smart Home. Any Android device can act as a transmitting device. The user can control any appliance through a user friendly mobile application built in Android platform. In order to avoid this situation, we have proposed a system using Bluetooth and Android application which help users to control the fans and lights within a certain distance from them. Also nowadays all the new homes are shifting towards LED lights so by using our designed app and system we can control the intensity of these lights and also apply it in other applications like fan, motor etc.