IoT Based Control System for Home Automation

Abstract

We are currently living in the Information Age, an era that’s characterized by rapid changes and huge technological developments. Perhaps, two of the most important breakthroughs in this century have been in the field of Automation and Internet of Things. In today’s world we are surrounded by devices that have the ability to access the internet and communicate with other such devices. In this paper the authors propose a method to couple the power of Automation and the functionality of Internet of Things, to control hardware systems and peripherals through a custom-built web server. The embedded controller used in the proposed system is a Raspberry Pi 3b+. This project aims at making home automation and other related automated tasks simple to build, execute, automate and monitor the usage through the World Wide Web. By using the proposed system, it will help the end user to curb electricity costs, by monitoring and saving the units consumed by the different peripherals in the system, and also have a positive impact on the environment. The framework used for implementing the back-end is a micro framework called Flask. Flask enables the user to build and deploy seamless Python based web applications. To demonstrate the real-time working of the proposed system, the Authors have built a small-scale electrical system which is controlled by the Raspberry Pi through a web-server running in the Local Area Network. The software is also programmed to generate a detailed data sheet containing various data such as running time, the consumption rates of these devices, and finally the units consumed by these devices.