DOMOTICS USING INTERNET OF THINGS

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NISHANT HORO, 2PRABAHARAN .R, 3PREM .G, 4J. ANTONY MASILA VICTORIA
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UG Scholar, 4Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department,
Tagore Engineering College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
E-mail: 1horonw@hotmail.com, 2prabaharan1888@gmail.com, 3getprem4@gmail.com, 4masila.victoria@gmail.com

Abstract Living today in this 21st century with all these various new emerging technologies around has become a vital
part of our day-to-day lives. Likewise the concept of smart home / home automation using IoT is one such emerging
technology which maybe within few years everyone will have a privilege to experience. You can imagine that you arrive
your empty house tired late night with a homely welcome where your dinner is ready - hot, room with comfortable
temperature level and TV running your favorite channel. It's not just about comfort but also energy efficient, more secure,
monitor-able and cheaper automated system where everything is in the control of your hand. This field having vast
applications and possibilities one could think about, this paper gives a small insight on the same.

Keywords Home automation, smart home, ESP8266, home appliances, wireless.

I. INTRODUCTION 2.2. Automate and Secure Your Home Using ZigBee

Domotics is a short intro to smart home technologies
which encompasses all phases of smart home
technology, including the highly sophisticated sensors
and controls that monitor and automate temperature,
lighting, security systems and many other functions
[6].
This concept of smart home automation is on the talk
for past few years and people are coming up with
many innovative ideas and various sensors and
functions and protocols to make this system even
more energy efficient and secure. With this system
we can switch ON/OFF any appliances, program and
configure in such a way that it will adopt to our
desired profile and likes, monitor and control
remotely and conserve energy by measuring usage of
each appliances, authorize and authenticate to
improve security system, etc. This system can also be
very much useful to specially-abled and old aged
ones. Due to advancement in wireless technologies
there are several wireless communication such as
Bluetooth, ZigBee, GSM, Wi-Fi, etc. Each of these
connections has their own unique specifications and
applications and drawbacks.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
2.1. Bluetooth Remote Home Automation System
Using Android Application
This paper presents the overall design of Home
Automation System (HAS) by implementing wireless
Bluetooth technology to provide remote access from
PC/laptop or smart phone. The design remains the
existing electrical switches and provides more safety
control on the switches with low voltage activating
method. The switches status is synchronized in all the
control system whereby every user interface indicates
the real time existing switches status with the help of
the GUI which theyve designed [1].
Technology
The purpose of this paper is to design a home
automation and get to know status of the home
appliances by using computer using ZigBee wireless
technology. Instead of connecting with wires, every
electrical appliance has small ZigBee. They are using
combination of NetBeans and Embedded-C for
monitoring and controlling software. The home
Appliances can be monitored and accessed remotely
by user via SMS or EMAIL where GSM Modem
comes into use. Multi-vendor appliances can be
added to the system with no major changes and hence
system is scalable. Password protection is one of the
functionality of the system so that unauthorized user
can be denied from accessing home appliances [2].
2.3. GSM Based Home Automation System Using
App-Inventor for Android Mobile Phone
This paper describes GSM (Global System
Messaging) based secured device control system
using App Inventor for Android mobile phones which
is a latest visual programming platform for
developing mobile which also aims to make
programming enjoyable and accessible to novices [3].
2.4. Internet Based Home Automation
In this paper for the home automation they are using
Arduino - Uno board to give control to the load with
the help of relay which can be controlled by giving
commands to the arduino with the help of micro
controller which is inbuilt in it. They are using
Ethernet shield to provide interface between user and
the arduino from any distance. This is the beginning
of IoT concept where internet is being used to
connect the devices, but the drawback is the Ethernet
connectivity to run this system that is wired [4].

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Systems Fig. 1 illustrates the overall control function of the
system.

Fig 1. System Architecture of the Proposed System

This system is connected both wired as well as

wirelessly. There is wired connections between all the
electronic components like sensors and the electrical
appliances to the Wi-Fi module. And the owner /
remote user are wirelessly connected to the Wi-Fi
module through local server or the internet.

III. SYSTEM OBJECTIVES AND GOALS

The basic goal of the system is the same as all other

smart home automation concept i.e. to create a low
cost platform of automation, monitoring, controlling,
to make it more secure and improve energy efficiency
of the whole system. Owner will be able to configure
his automated house as per his taste in the form of
profiles where the home appliances and the system
will adapt accordingly. There will be authorization
and authentication involved to improve security
which also has the option of changing the systems
password periodically. The system is eco-friendly as
it utilizes the energy efficiently with minimum
maintenance and easy installation.

IV. PROPOSED SYSTEM DESIGN AND

IMPLEMENTATION

ESP8266 12E NodeMCU is high performance

wireless SOCs, for mobile platform designers, which
provides unsurpassed ability to embed Wi-Fi
capabilities within other systems, at the lowest cost
with the greatest functionality [5]. It acts a bridge to
connect the owner / remote user to the system using
the local server or the internet itself. Here we are
using Arduino IDE to program the board using
Fig 2. Sensor and Actuator Control Stage [7]
The user has full control over every devices and
appliances and can switch ON or OFF anything
remotely. The switches status and sensor readings can
also be monitored in real-time periodically. Fig. 2
shows the flow chart of sensors and actuators control.

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V. HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
All the previous home automation system has used
various technologies to control and monitor the
system and each connectivity has their own unique
specifications and applications and drawbacks. Fig. 3
shows the basic block diagram of the system. In a
system like this, power consumption and energy
efficiency is one such major concern. First of all the
number of devices and protocols are reduced in our
system and secondly the hardware component that we
use is just the solution for all the above problems.
Fig 3. System Block Diagram
5.1. ESP8266 12E NodeMCU
We are using ESP8266 12E NodeMCU Fig. 4 for
our proposed system which is the core of this whole
system. ESP8266 offers a complete and self-
contained Wi-Fi networking solution, allowing it to
either host the application or to offload all Wi-Fi
networking functions from another application
processor.
Fig 4. ESP8266 12E NodeMCU
When ESP8266 hosts the application, and when it is
the only application processor in the device, it is able
to boot up directly from an external flash. It has
integrated cache to improve the performance of the
system in such applications, and to minimize the
memory requirements.
Alternately, serving as a Wi-Fi adapter, wireless
internet access can be added to any microcontroller-
based design with simple connectivity through UART
interface or the CPU AHB bridge interface.
ESP8266 on-board processing and storage
capabilities allow it to be integrated with the sensors
and other application specific devices through its
GPIOs with minimal development up-front and
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minimal loading during runtime. With its high degree
of on-chip integration, which includes the antenna
switch balun, power management converters, it
requires minimal external circuitry, and the entire
solution, including front-end module, is designed to
occupy minimal PCB area.
Sophisticated system-level features include fast
sleep/wake context switching for energy efficient
VoIP, adaptive radio biasing for low-power
operation, advance signal processing, and spur
cancellation and radio co-existence features for
common cellular, Bluetooth, DDR, LVDS, LCD
interference mitigation [5].
5.2. Features
2.4-2.483 GHz Frequency Range
802.11 b/g/n/d /e/i/k/r support
Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft AP
Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack
IPv4,TCP/UDP/HTTP/FTP protocol
Consumes 12A in sleep mode, 1mA during
standby
Consumes 1mW while connected to AP
32-bit CPU, 16-bit thumb mode
iBus, dBus, AHB, JTAG interface
16 GPIO pins
Max. frequency 52MHz
Transmit 802.11b CCK 1Mbps 215mA
Receive 802.11b packet 60mA
You can find more features and details about it in its
datasheet [5].
CONCLUSIONS
In conclusion, our proposed automated system can be
accessed remotely which can be used to control and
monitor every activities with ease by any device
which has the internet facility that can be either a
phone or a PC or a tablet with periodic real-time
updates. Considering the specially abled and the
senior citizens, they dont have to rely on others
much, giving them comfort by providing user friendly
interface.
The complexity of the system is reduced as both the
microcontroller and the Wi-Fi module are integrated
into a single hardware component and reduced wired
connections, making it compact and cost efficient.
Also because of unique features of ESP8266 12E
Wi-Fi module, there is drastic drop in energy
consumption making this system energy efficient
saving thousands of watts of electricity while
designing such automated system in the future.
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ESP8266 12E Datasheet,
https://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/ESP8266_Specificati
ons_English.pdf
What is Domotics?,
http://architecture.about.com/od/buildyourhous1/g/domoti
cs.htm
Home Gateway flow chart for the connection
establishment with the internet,
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ijit.20130201.02.html

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