The aim of home automation is to control home devices from a central control point. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low cost but yet flexible and secure internet based home automation system. The communication between the devices is wireless. The protocol between the units in the design is enhanced to be suitable for most of the appliances. The system is designed to...

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...

This work describes the use of well known computer applications to enable smart home users to monitor and control their homes using customized documents. Middleware written in applescript and perl-cgi was used to integrate the computer applications with the OpenWebNet protocol used in home automation. The events triggered by the applications are easily log by web and mail servers to facilitate ...

We have been listening for a long time to the wide functionality that home automation technologies can offer for improving our lives and adding security to our houses. However the price and an unstable domotics market have restricted the deployment of such systems. Nowadays, companies offer too technology-dependent solutions which do not cover user demands completely. Meanwhile, works in the li...

Home and building automation aims at improving features and capabilities of household systems and appliances. Nevertheless, current solutions poorly support dynamic scenarios and context-awareness. The integration of knowledge representation features and reasoning techniques (originally devised for the Semantic Web) into standard home automation protocols can offer high-level services to users....

Automation and security is a one of the important issue in a modern domestic environment. This system focus on developmental and research issues of Wireless Sensor Network based Smart Home. Wireless Sensor Network based smart home monitoring system provides a secure and safe living environment. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network which is constructing by using small autonomous nodes (s...