Revista de informática y biología de sistemas

Connectier (Home Appliances Controlling System)

Abstract

Dulith Fernando D, Dharmawardhana MP, Sameera PP, Silva ND and Chinthaka J

In 21st century, Smart home concept is playing a major role in day to day life and lives also are much more dependent on electronic devices and smart refrigerator is very popular and attention seeking among these home appliances. Home automation has been increasing vastly in the past years due to much simplicity and affordability for home appliances. Earlier home automation systems were based on technologies like Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z wave and remotely controlled using GSM networks. Currently IOT technology is widely used in home automation which will allow users to control hardware devices through the internet. Smart refrigerators are major part of home automation. Current smart refrigerators come as a single component (as whole complete fridge), which is quite expensive and not affordable for everyone. This research presents a more affordable and useful way to keep track of the food items in the refrigerator using consumption trackers which come as add-ons. The automated approach of controlling the home appliances through mobile and web applications could ease the task using the IOT technology. Because of popularity and flexibility in Android operating system, this mobile application is based on android. The need of a simple and elegant way to keep track of the food items in the refrigerator is the major requirement of this research. A more simple way of allowing people the freedom of having complete control of their home appliances from anywhere is another requirement of this research. Therefore, implementing consumption trackers that can be kept inside the refrigerator, receiving notifications according to the consumption of food items, keeping track of them and a home automation system that reduces energy consumption, protects home environment from secondary effect are the purposes of this research. The result of this research, web and Cloud based home automation system that is flexible and scalable with wide range of home appliances, will promote the growth of IOT. Proposed Home Automation System will help to improve the standard of living at home and allow increasing work efficiency in future.