1 IntroductionDespite the popularity gained in the '80s, has never reached the market, especially because of economic reasons, whereas installing applications, purchasing devices, and maintenance were very expensive. Apart from costs, another problem was that applications integrated into an automated system are considered to be open information systems, so they could be attacked at any time by malicious persons or controlled by unauthorized individuals. It took more than two decades before technology win the battle against security doubts and the concept automation became reality.In the current context, system has less to do with its predecessor, the domotic system, because it is based on a revolutionary concept: IoT (Internet of Things), which represented the beginning of a new era for technology. It represented the moment when the technology had the capacity to change fiction into reality through simple developments of automated systems, wirelessly interconnected and managed using only one mobile device, a better idea than domotics, which required a multitude of interconnected computers to manage related applications of domestic appliances.Before describing the system and its functionalities I want to clarify the difference between automation and home, because I noticed they are usually used as synonyms by general public and even by experts. The first concept was designed to integrate household appliances, relying solely on the use of subroutines in order to ease and improve people's lifestyles. The system I have implemented and I will present in the next sections is based on this concept, because it has no intelligence, the devices being automated according to my preferences using programming languages. Smart home was a term used for the first time in the mid-1980s during the boom of the domotic system and has its origins in automation, but it is a much wider concept that includes a large range of features, technologies and industries, all interconnected through IoT. [1] Therefore, we can say that automation lies at the heart of the intelligent houses known today, a fully interconnected concept that has learning abilities. That being said, through artificial intelligence the system learns the behavior of the inhabitants and can take independent decisions. Nowadays systems have enhanced capabilities, allowing monitoring and control of from a single mobile/web application, managing security and providing remote healthcare, or even reducing energy consumption as a result of optimization algorithms. Fiction has been transposed as much as possible into reality, so today we are facing with talking houses that originally existed only in books or films and integrated technologies where everything is interconnected and the possibilities are endless.2Literature ReviewThe aim of this section is to establish a base of the existing literature, and to present different HAS with their features, benefits or limitations.Shortcomings of existing technologies were mentioned in 2013 in a paper which introduced a convenient and flexible smart system based on IoT. There was presented a demo version of the system which used a phone to query and control the system locally and remotely. The experimental results shown that the system could provide a real-time management for the and it is considered that with the introduction of IoT the research and implementation of are getting more popular. [2]In 2014, another paper presented a flexible, low-cost automated system, which is based on a mobile application for Android which communicates with the micro-web server from the Arduino Ethernet. The proposed design is based on the management control of energy systems such as lightings, security, heating, air conditioning, fire or intrusion detection using a siren and email notifications. [3]In the same year, another relevant paper presented the necessary background regarding the IoT paradigm. …