While the cost of living is going up, there a growing focus to involve technology lower those prices. With this in mind Smart Home research allows user build and maintain house that smart enough keep energy levels down while providing more automated applications. This concept can be suitably included make our smarter, saver, efficient automated. focuses on building save, system by using interne...

In this paper, an Android based home automation system that allows multiple users to control the appliances by an Android application or through a web site is presented. The system has three hardware components: a local device to transfer signals to home appliances, a web server to store customer records and support services to the other components, and a mobile smart device running Android app...

This paper discusses a novel architecture for remote Home Automation Networks e-Services on an OSGi platform via high speed Internet connections ensuring QoS support. These connections can be ADSL links, an emerging technology which provides the user of the local loop with broadband speeds. Since ADSL is a technology in the local loop, the presence of a signaling mechanism based on RSVP is nece...

Home Automation using cloud network is a system that uses computers or mobile devices to control basic home functions and features automatically through the internet from anywhere around the world, an automated home is sometimes called a smart home. This network uses a consolidation of a mobile phone application and PC based program to provide the means of the user interface to the consumer. Th...

Controlling Home Appliances remotely is à main part of automation. There is a great deal of inconvenience in controlling each digital home appliance with its own separate remote. In this paper we present an advanced universal remote which can control and regulate lights, fans and also any IR controlled Home appliance like TV, home theater, air conditioner etc. This paper gives the design on how...

The nature of home automation is introduced. It is argued that end users should be able to define how the home system reacts to changing circumstances. Policies are employed as user-defined rules for how this should happen. The architecture of the Homer home automation system is briefly overviewed. The Homer policy system and the Homeric policy language it supports are explained. A technique is...

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...