Manual, Internet and Bluetooth all-in-one Smart Home (MIB-AIO)

Abstract

In this paper a cost effective, user convenient, wireless (with and without internet) at the same time, manually controlled smart home automation system which can control up to 30 electrical appliances is presented. We propose an idea of a household consisting of a communication network that connects various electrical appliances and facilitates these appliances to be remotely controlled, monitored and accessed using a smartphone application. The proposed system consists of ESP32 microcontroller development board with hybrid (Internet as well as Bluetooth) connectivity for controlling electrical appliances and sensors, by the authorized user remotely using a smartphone application. This will help users to monitor power consumption and parallelly provide full control of all the electronic devices on the smartphone application which can also be controlled with the user’s "voice". This paper additionally gives the details of hardware and software architecture, methodologies and algorithms used, scope and future work. The proposed prototype of MIB-AIO which currently enables control over 4 electrical appliances was tested and deployed, and it yielded precise and predicted results.