The development of Smart Home Controllers has seen rapid growth in recent years, especially for smart devices, that can utilize the Internet Things (IoT). However, a large portion household devices and appliances already use, are not IoT enabled, therefore, requires their default control mechanisms to operate. This paper proposes appliance controller uses Augmented Reality, MQTT, other up-to-da...

Home automation is an important milestone that is becoming increasingly prominent day by day because of its various points of interest. Advancement in existing technologies have made smart homes that are more efficient and secure. This can be done either by local system administration or through remote control. Using the Raspberry Pi in home automation provides various features to turn a regula...

Smart home technology provides benefits for the elderly in six primary categories: safety, health and nutrition, physical activity, personal hygiene and care, social engagement, and leisure. Safety is about detecting and mitigating, if not removing, hazards from the user’s environment. Social engagement relates to the smart home functions that allow the elderly to combat social isolation, such ...

This work presents the design and implementation of a wireless home monitoring and automation system consisting of wireless sensor/actuator nodes, wireless camera, and a home server. The low-cost wireless sensor/actuator node features temperature, light intensity and motion sensors, and actuator driver circuits for the control of motors, heaters, and lights. Server and client programs used to m...

Home automation environments are dedicated to helping users in their everyday life and are being deployed in an increasing number of areas, including home security, energy consumption, and assisted living. The range of situations to be addressed makes the development of home automation applications challenging: it requires to manage heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities....