A secured deep learning based smart home automation system

With the expansion of modern technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT), the concept of smart homes has gained tremendous popularity with a view to making people’s lives easier by ensuring a secured environment. Several home automation systems have been developed to report suspicious activities by capturing the movements of residents. However, these systems are associated with challenges such as weak security, lack of interoperability and integration with IoT devices, timely reporting of suspicious movements, etc. Therefore, the given paper proposes a novel smart home automation framework for controlling home appliances by integrating with sensors, IoT devices, and microcontrollers, which would in turn monitor the movements and send notifications about suspicious movements on the resident’s smartphone. The proposed framework makes use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for motion detection and classification based on pre-processing of images. The images related to the movements of residents are captured by a spy camera installed in the system. It helps in identification of outsiders based on differentiation of motion patterns. The performance of the framework is compared with existing deep learning models used in recent studies based on evaluation metrics such as accuracy (%), precision (%), recall (%), and f-1 measure (%). The results show that the proposed framework attains the highest accuracy (98.67%), thereby surpassing the existing deep learning models used in smart home automation systems.