IoT for Home Automation: Research Proposal

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Internet of Things for home automation
Research Proposal

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Aim of the study.........................................................................................................................2
Objectives of the study...............................................................................................................2
Significance of the study............................................................................................................3
Methodology..............................................................................................................................3
Timelines....................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The Internet of things (IoT) is the most promising technology of this decade. It was
introduced for the first time in 1998 by Kevin Ashton and since then it has brought revolution
in the field of information and communication technology. It basically means to connect all
the devices with the internet. All of the smart devices like mobile phones, home appliances,
transportation system, watches, etc. will be connected with the internet and will act as one
system. The main goal of IoT is to reduce the human interaction with daily work (Akyildiz,
Rudin, Stiller, 2018). It creates a network of machines and physical objects that interact with
each other and cooperate to enhance human life. IoT is just not a single device but a whole
system of devices. This can be used to monitor our results and data, homes, properties,
business, etc. while we are somewhere else (Luigi, Lera and Morabito, 2010).
Many global companies like google, amazon, etc. have already entered in this market. Many
start-up companies have also joined in this growing market as IoT is not only limited to home
automation but it can also provide great business opportunities. It can also be used in business
automation. But the concept of IoT is not well accepted because of some reasons like high
price, target or limited customer and establishment of infrastructure for this technology
(Balta-Ozkan, et al., 2013; Mordor intelligence, 2018).
There are many applications of IoT, and there is still lot of research required in this field. One
application is in health care industries which can use the resources of IoT very well. Another
application is of smart city. A city which makes better use of resources, improved service
quality, reduced cost of public administrations, can be referred as smart city (Zanella, et al.,
2014). This can be achieved with the help of IoT. But the most important role of IoT is in the
home automation or smart home, which is the main part of this proposal. The home enabled
with IoT which is more intelligent, can be controlled with remote and has interconnected
devices can be referred as smart home. In this research, an effort is made to study home
automation in terms of security and how it can be improved and made more efficient (Yang,
Lee and Lee, 2018; Park, et al., 2017).
IoT management is highly essential because of the increasing number of devices getting
connected to the systems. The device management is essential because there is increase in the
number of devices connected on the network is very large (Internet of things, 2018). With the
help of edge computing, IoT systems will be able to provide higher speeds and better