Smart Living: An Interactive Control System for Household Appliances

Mu-Chun Su,Jieh-Haur Chen,Hsi-Hsien Wei,Achmad Muhyidin Arifai,Sung-Yang Tsai

doi:10.1109/access.2021.3051253

Abstract

Hand-gesture based control has enormous potential both theoretically and for practical applications due to its convenience and intuitiveness. This study presents a real-time interactive control system for household appliances. The interactive control system allowing wireless control of household appliances using a combination of 11 hand gestures and 2 waving motions is tested on hundreds of samples. It is implemented using a regular personal computer (PC) and existing digital single processing (DSP) platforms. The evaluation results show that the system performs efficiently reaching an accuracy recognition rate of 91% and spending around 30 seconds to complete the control operation for household appliances. The contributions of this work are both academic (1) successful demonstration of the integration of algorithms for solving image detection, processing, and pattern recognition, and practical (2) showing its feasibility and using commonly available hardware and software configurations for practical uses, and finally (3) establishing a mechanism for intuitively interactive control system that facilitates smart living.

Highlights

A smart home usually refers to a house equipped with hightech devices, appliances, sensors, and networks
Its successful demonstration of the integration of algorithms needed for solving the image detection and pattern recognition problems is beneficial to academic
A gesture-based human-computer interaction system is developed for the control of household appliances using 11 gestures and waving to the right and to the left

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Introduction

A smart home usually refers to a house equipped with hightech devices, appliances, sensors, and networks. These tools increase the level of convenience to the people living in the home by allowing them to remotely access, control, and monitor home appliances through smart technologies [1], [2]. Smart home services have not been greatly expanded because the technologies needed to enable these services have not been adequately developed [3]. These services are often not familiar and/or not seen as consumer-friendly so most studies remain in the development phases.

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