Home Automation as a Service

Home automation, as a model of pervasive computing, is progressively becoming substantial for people homed in developed societies. With the proliferation in the usage of household electronic and electrical appliances,numerous data and multifarious controlslevycumbersome burden on residentialhome automation control units, making it expensive and difficult for the users to autonomously install, control and monitor the home automation system. In this paper, we convey the concept of Home Automation as a Service (HAaaS) based on cloud computing, which assistsinshrinkingresidential computing workload and therefore making home automation more convenient, flexible, energy efficient and less expensive. Furthermore, cloud based HAaaS would readily endow theusers the ability to remotely control and monitor their home automation system in real-time, from anywhere, via the Internet.We also present the design, implementation and operation of a cloud connected ad-hoc wireless home automation system as aworking example of multiuser HAaaS andthereby infer that HAaaSis indeed fructuous.