Department of Engineering and Computing - Smart Home

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING
Department of Engineering and Computing
SMART HOME
Student’s first and last name
Student Number
A report submitted in part fulfilment of the degree of
BSc (Hons) in Your Programme
Supervisor: Supervisor Name
CN6103
8 September 2022

Declaration
I, hereby declare that the work presented is original and has never been submitted for an award to
any university or institution of higher learning. I can confirm that where I have done consultations
either from published material or the works of others, it has been attributed in this report.

Approval
This project report titled Smart Home Application has been submitted for examination with my
approval as the supervisor
Signature: ................................................... Date: ............................
Supervisor.

Acknowledgements
To the Almighty God, we thank Him for the love, affection and mercy He had for us throughout the
implementation of our final year project up to the time of producing this report.
My heartfelt gratitude goes to my supervisors; ---------------- who have been very instrumental in
this project by selflessly providing their time, expert advice and guidance that has enabled me
complete this project.
The support of family and friends during the period when carrying out this project cannot be left
unsaid. Our parents most especially have been so amazing during this period. To all other family
members and friends, words cannot fully express my gratitude to you but we sincerely appreciate
you for what you have been to us throughout the whole period of my career development.
I also sincerely grateful to our project team members for their dedication, hard work and
cooperation throughout the entire academic year to see this project to completion.

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Contents
Declaration....................................................................................................................... 2
Approval........................................................................................................................... 3
Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................... 4
Abbreviations/Acronyms.....................................................................................................8
Abstract............................................................................................................................ 9
Chapter 1: Introduction...............................................................................................10
1.1 Problem Statement.................................................................................................... 10
1.2 Main Objective........................................................................................................... 11
1.3 Objectives.................................................................................................................. 11
1.4 Scope (where applicable).......................................................................................... 11
1.5 Significance............................................................................................................... 12
Chapter 2: Literature Review......................................................................................13
2.1 Smart Home............................................................................................................... 13
2.2 Features of the Smart Home System.........................................................................13
2.3 Challenges for the smart Home system.....................................................................14
2.4 The existing smart home systems.............................................................................14
2.5 Conclusions............................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 3: Project Plan..............................................................................................17
3.1 Projected Budget....................................................................................................... 19
3.2 Project Schedule........................................................................................................ 20
3.2.2 Work Break down Structure.......................................................................................21
3.3 Project Roles and Responsibilities.............................................................................22
3.4 Milestone................................................................................................................... 23
3.5 APPROVALS............................................................................................................. 24
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Chapter 4: Proposed Solution....................................................................................25
4.1 The proposed smart Home system............................................................................25
Chapter 5: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues...............................................................27
5.1 Ethical issues............................................................................................................. 27
5.2 Legal issues............................................................................................................... 27
5.3 Social issues.............................................................................................................. 27
Chapter 6: Methodology.............................................................................................28
6.1 System Study and Analysis.......................................................................................28
6.2 Requirement Determination.......................................................................................28
6.3 System Design........................................................................................................... 29
6.4 System Implementation.............................................................................................30
6.5 System Testing and Validation.......................................................................................31
Chapter 7: SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION...........................................32
7.1 System Design............................................................................................................. 32
7.1.1 System Architecture..................................................................................................... 32
7.2 System Implementation.............................................................................................41
Chapter 8: PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF RESULTS...............................45
8.1 Discussion of results:.................................................................................................45
Chapter 9: CONCLUSION..........................................................................................48
Chapter 10: RECOMMENDATIONS.........................................................................49
Chapter 11: FUTURE WORKS.................................................................................50
References.....................................................................................................................51
Appendix A - Final Project Proposal to be attached.......................................................54
Methods for data collection (determining the Requirements)................................................60
System Implementation............................................................................................................ 61
Appendix B - Application for ethical approval to be attached (if needed)........................62
Appendix C – Client Consent Form to be attached........................................................63
Additional Appendices (Interview questions)..................................................................64
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Abbreviations/Acronyms
WHO World Health Organization
LED Light Emitting Diodes
ICT Information and Communication Technology
API Application Programming Interface
GPIO General Purpose Input – Output
USB Universal Serial Bus
HDMI High Definition Medium Interface
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
ECG Electrocardiograph
IRD Infra-Red Device
LAN Local Area Network
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Abstract
Smart Home system has become famous because of the benefits of the automation of home
process. The home automation has several benefits and easy home operation. The Smart
home system refers to controlling of home devices through use of the local network or
remote controlling. The project discusses the smart home system, modern technology used
at home and different features of the smart home system. The project focus on monitoring
and controlling of home operation by use of electronic devices installed at Home. The
following devices are reviewed in details; Arduino or Raspberry pi, mobile application
based on android platform and internet of things.
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