Toward Home Automation: An IoT Based Home Automation System Control and Security

Abstract

Smart home systems using smart devices are designed to improve users’ lives, making homes’ security and safety more automated, and adding extra features such as remote home surveillance and environmental control. This paper introduces a smart home framework using the Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Controls for on/off state of lamps, fans, and irrigation pumps in the smart house have been implemented, together with a remote monitoring system for temperature and humidity. An IoT platform (ThingSpeak) with Blynk Application has been used for remote monitoring of appliances in a home and to interact with these appliances in the case of certain conditions being met, together with a mobile application. Home security and fire systems have also been involved in this work. Several scenarios have been implemented for testing and evaluating the IoT smart home system. The findings show a high performance for the designed system.