The design and fulfillment of a Smart Home (SH) material powered by the IoT using the Blynk app

Abstract

Home Automation System (HAS) has attracted great interest as communication technology advances. A Smart Home (SH) is an Internet of Things (IoT) app that utilizes the Internet to surveillance and control devices through the use of a smart home automation system (SHAS). Current home automation systems (HASs) are limited by a lack of IoT technology, an unfriendly user interface, a limited wireless transmission range, and high costs. This paper describes an affordable, safe and energy-efficient WiFi-based system smart home or intelligent home, which enables home appliances to be monitored by homeowners in local and remote locations via mobile phone/PC. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Arduino Mega 2560 were used to configuring the server automation framework. Moreover, various sensors that are connected to the Arduino Mega controller have been used to monitor current, voltage, power, energy, frequency, humidity, temperature, motion, flame, smoke, gas, doors, windows and other household conditions, and also to successfully control household appliances (lights, fans, reverse fan, water pump, etc.) either automatically or via relays. The proposed automation system can surveillance and control home conditions via the Blynk app for both Android or IOS.