Prototype of Air Conditioners Control Systems via Line Chatbot using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

The concept of this research is development of control of air conditioner through a chatbot, with Raspberry Pi. The study starts from learning how to program Raspberry Pi to work with the air conditioner that has on-off power switch, and write a program to control the air conditioner through a LINE chatbot. This study aims to allow the user to turn the air conditioner on and off through the LINE chatbot anytime and anywhere as long as internet connection is available, ease of implementation, precision, problem-solving matters. This study experiments on an air conditioner in the computer lab room B404 of Faculty of Information Technology, Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology. Evaluation of the prototype system is done in two forms: evaluation by three experts, and 20 users. Evaluation shows that the experts’ rating is "very satisfied" (average =4.63), and users’ rating is "satisfied" (average =4.13).