Wireless appliance control system

Abstract

The needs of centralized control system has been long identified in office and industry application. Nevertheless, the same concept can be extended to home application in which a residence can control certain object through a centralized control system. Thus, a wireless appliance control system for home is proposed in this paper. It makes use of the computer as digital control and monitoring system to control the entire appliance within a house. The system includes a computer as the control centre, RF transmitter and receiver, encoder and decoder in order to send the signal from user to a specific appliance. Visual Basic (VB) software has been chosen as the control interface between the user and the rest of the system to reach the specific object. VB provides not only neat interface but also a simple programming to communicate with the rest of the component block.