Design of IoT based Platform Development for Smart Home Appliances Control

Abstract

The advent of industrial automation has brought about a substantial change in the human lifestyle and the way human interaction with machines. One of the major technological interventions in day-to-day life is the role of automation, which has uplifted the living standards in developed countries and fostered humans’ dependency for accomplishing recurring tasks. The latest and most adopted technology for remotely monitoring and controlling any machine or device is the Internet of Things-which has become one of the industry standards for automation. Multiple edge computation capable embedded devices and machines are connected to the internet as independent nodes, which can be monitored and controlled remotely with the use of IoT. Adapting this cutting-edge technology for household appliances to monitor and control them is often seen nowadays. This is fast and reliable but arrives with its own snags such as availability of internet at place where user and also the device/appliance is located, use of single control strategy which hampers and restricts the user always to carry the remote or to stay in the vicinity of the device to be controlled in case of wifi or Bluetooth controlled automation. The proposed research focuses on the adoption of multiple strategies to control each device/appliance to empower the end-user without being restricted to depend on a single strategy remote controlling system. The core part of the proposed research revolves around the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol but can be activated with multiple routes such as touch-based sensing panels, cellphone-based controlling, web-enabled controlling or even gesture-based controlling of the appliances resulting in an ameliorative user experience and interactions with machines.