Face and Speech Recognition Based Smart Home

Abstract

Over the course of last decade, home security and automation systems have been gaining extreme popularity because of the enhancement in the field of science and the concomitant risks of breaking in the system. This paper envisions a smart home based on the two independent and emerging technologies viz face recognition, for the security purposes, and speech recognition, for the automation purposes. Moreover, the latest work done is discussed briefly and why an offline system was an urgent need to fill the gap in the recent technology protocols introduced in the related field. Security system ensures the working of the smart home by taking the image on the ringing of the bell and comparing it with the stored database of owners in a robust and reliable manner through Raspberry Pi microcontroller and OpenCV. Voice control over the whole house makes this system effective and efficient which could turn out to be a great charity to handicapped, elder and paralyzed people in the remote areas with no access to internet by a single voice command in the mic connected to Arduino V3 module.