Home Automation Technologies make possible the deployment of home monitoring and control applications. These technologies rely on different networking technologies. Some of them are oriented towards some basic functionalities like switching a device on, off and dimming for lights. Others tend to provide more advanced functionalities like reading of the actual temperature from a thermometer. In ...

Home automation is the systematic controlling and monitoring of everyday home devices such as lighting, heating, window blinds and appliances (both white goods and home electronics). This report describes how to control and monitor home appliances over IPv6 by using existing home automation hardware and an Internet connected gateway. There are many commercial home automation systems available. ...

Infrastructure and commercial products exists for home automation. The popularity of home automation has increased but ubiquitous living has not been adopted in everyday life yet even though the visions for it has been around for several years. This paper looks into home automation and smart homes and evaluates existing and planned ubiquitous interfaces intended for the home use. Author

Home automation which is playing a very vital role in modern times due to its flexibility, reliable in using at different places with high precision and in which will save money and thus time by decreasing human hardwork. General idea in automation of home shows the various quality of human being at the house. Main focus of technology is in controlling the household equipment‟s like light, TV, ...

Automation is the use of management systems and information technology to manage equipment, industrial machinery and processes, reducing the necessity for human intervention. Within the scope of industrial enterprise, automation may be a step beyond mechanization. Home automation is use of one or additional computers to manage basic home functions and options automatically and generally remotel...

The home automation market is characterized by the great number of systems available to the end user. The recent bubble in the building industry made the situation even worse due to the birth of new proprietary systems. The success of the digital home concept depends on the ease of integration between home automation systems and other consumer electronic equipment pre-existing in the home. In t...

Article history: In this paper we propose th Received 20 July 2007 Received in revised form 26 August 2008 Accepted 28 September 2008 Available online 26 October 2008

-Today we are living in 21 century where automation is playing important role in human life. Home automation allows us to control household appliances like light, door, fan, AC etc. It also provides home security and emergency system to be activated. Home automation not only refers to reduce human efforts but also energy saving and time efficiency. The main objective of home automation and secu...

To face the problems of elderly and disabled people in a rural environment, the district of Guéret (department of Creuse, France) has set up the “Home automation and Health Pole”. In association with the University of Limoges, this structure is based on the use of e-technologies together with home automation techniques. In this frame, many international collaborations attempts have started thro...