ALEXA CONTROLLED HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM

Gesture Controlled Home Automation

With each passing day the gap between machines and humans is being reduced with the introduction of new technologies to ease the standard of living. A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication where physical action, especially hands, is used for data transmission. Based upon the type of gestures, they have been captured via Acoustic (sound), Tactile (touch), Optical (light), Bionic and Moti...

Bluetooth based home automation system

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of consumer electronics. Various ‘intelligent’ appliances such as cellular phones, air-conditioners, home security devices, home theatres, etc. are set to realize the concept of a smart home. They have given rise to a Personal Area Network in home environment, where all these appliances can be interconnected and monitored using a sin...

Multiagent System for Home Automation

Smart-home conception has emerged in recent years and played a very important part in the formation of future houses. Since the beginning of the smart-home era, home automation benefits have never overshadowed the cost of such systems. One of these costs is that there is always the need for home inhabitants to program the system to perform daily tasks. In this paper we present prototype of a sy...

>HACK::Home Automation Controlled by Kinesics

HORUS: an Agent System for Home Automation

This paper presents a system for home automation, called HORUS, which is based on an agent architecture. The benefits deriving from this type of solution are essentially three. Firstly, the agent paradigm provides a good abstraction mechanism for implementing a modular system, easy to configure according to the requirements of a specific application. The second reason is the possibility of scal...