WEEK 10
Activity: LITERATURE REVIEW (RESEARCH & FINDINGS)
HISTORY OF SMART HOME
The idea of developing
a Smart Home is since the early 20th century. In 1915, the emergence
of electrical home appliance began; domestic servants meant the household
needed cheap and mechanical replacement. In 1960, the first “wired home” was
built by American hobbyist. After microcontroller has been invented, a lot of
work has been done to develop the Home Automation System. During 1990, Smart
Home system has been developed based on the merging of telematics and
communication system “The Internet”. Since 1990, the internet technology and
Smart Home system was tied strongly. The concept of the “Internet of Things”
enhances Smart Home system tremendously.
Recently,
Smart Home system has 10 reached another level of intelligence by way wireless
communication. The low cost characteristic of Arduino microcontroller that can
extend the network has been applied to the Smart Home system. By using Arduino
microcontroller, problem with messy wires and difficultly of setting up can be
avoided. Besides, the usefulness and simplicity of Smartphone also can be
applied to Smart Home system as an attractive user interface. Since the early
20th century, a lot of work has been done to develop the smart Home
system. Basically, a Smart Home refers to a home with intelligent to control,
monitoring and automate the home system. The Smart Home’s degree of
intelligence depends on the complexity of the system.
BENEFITS HOME AUTOMATION [5]
In recent year,
wireless systems like Wi-Fi have become more and more common in home
networking. Also in home and building automation systems, the use of wireless
technologies gives several advantages that could not be achieved using a weird
network only. There are many of advantages of home automation systems such as;
a)
Reduced installation costs:
First and foremost, installation costs
are significantly reduced since no cabling is necessary. Wired solutions
require cabling, where material as well as the professional laying of cables
(e.g. into walls) is expensive.
b)
System scalability and easy extension:
Deploying a wireless network is
especially advantageous when, due to new or changed requirements, extension of
the network is necessary. In contrast to wired installations, in which cabling
extension is tedious. This makes wireless installations a seminal investment.
c)
Aesthetical benefits:
Apart from covering a larger area, this
attributes helps to full aesthetical requirements as well. Examples include
representative buildings with all-glass architecture and historical buildings
where design or conservatory reasons do not allow laying of cables.
d)
Integration of mobile devices:
With wireless networks, associating
mobile devices such as PDAs and Smartphones with the automation system becomes
possible location is no longer crucial for a connection (as long as the device
is in reach of the network).
For
all these reasons, wireless technology is not only an attractive choice in
renovation and refurbishment, but also for new installation.
credit to: Vinay, S., Kusuma, SM., (June, 2015) “Home
Automation Using Internet of Things”
PRESENT PROJECT
Based
on the previous research that related to Home Automation system, the present
project is to design a suitable and simpler circuit of home automation system
by controlling such as lights, fans, motors and many more of home appliances.
An Arduino microcontroller and android application is using in hardware
development.. For sure, it is intended around the Asia at low cost,
user-friendly, reliable, and more-functional and also can provide more security
can be activated and can reduce energy consumption. As already know, the home
automation systems not only refer to reducing people’ efforts, but also reduce
time consumption. Besides, with advanced technology can be utilized in develop
the project of smart home in order to provide more comfortable. Nowadays,
mobile phone not only just utilized to make any calls or sending massages to
people. But, the mobile phone devices changed time continuous and rapidly
develop of technology which is smartphone. So, this project will connect with
smartphone by using android application.
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