Electrical Engineering Smart Home Project: Design and Implementation

This project report outlines the development of a smart home system, emphasizing the convenience and control offered by integrating home appliances with a Wi-Fi network. It addresses the problem of managing home devices remotely, detailing the benefits of information availability and automation through the Internet of Things (IoT). The project's requirements include a cable modem, a server for data storage, and a digital logic controller to integrate appliances. It also explores wireless technologies, specifically Wi-Fi, for communication, and includes a comprehensive list of references. The project aims to enable remote monitoring and control of appliances like wind detectors, motion detectors, lawn sprinklers, ceiling fans, and temperature monitors, providing a practical application of IoT principles in home automation. This project offers a real-world example of how technology can enhance convenience and security in modern living environments, with a focus on wireless communication standards such as Wi-Fi to facilitate seamless device interaction.

Smart Home Project

Description and Importance
 Connection of tech in our home to our Wi-Fi network has a lot of
benefits. One of them is convenience and control. Everything in
the house can be controlled with real time environment by use of
a web browser or an app on your smartphone (Suryadevara &
Mukhopadhyay, 2015)

Description and Importance
con’t
 Secondly, information availability: Smart home devices will
provide ease of access to information on things like access to
smart security camera and energy feeders. A smart meter will
inform us how much gas and electricity we are getting through
(Ghayvat & Mukhopadhyay, 2017 ).

Description and Importance
con’t
 Third, automating our homes. If we do not want to manually
monitor and control our home appliances all the time we can go
one step further and have scenes, rules and routines setup.
Depending on activities that are taking place in our home, sensors
will be triggered and actions will take place and in response to the
event that is taking place (Kyas, 2017).

Statement of the problem
 When one is not at home, nagging small doubts may start
crowding our heads. Did I turn off the Lawn sprinkler? Did I turn
off the coffee maker? Did I turn on smoke detector? Did I shut
down the door behind me? Did I set on the security alarm? Are
my children watching television or doing their homework?
(Patrick, 2017)
 With a handheld computing device, all these doubts will be quiet
with a fast glance at hand held computing device. Our
smartphone can connect to the home appliances in our home so
that they are able to communicate with each other together with
us (Briere & Hurley, 2011)

Statement of the problem con’t
 In this project, we will be developing a smart home that should
be to monitor and control a number of appliances when one is far
away from home.
 Any electrical appliances at our homes can be put on our home
network and at our command regardless of our location, the
home appliances will respond.

Internet_Of_Things
 IoT denotes to a phrase that reflects on the objects and products
being interconnected and can be identified via digital networks.
The web-like extension of home appliances has gotten larger and
larger each day. Our project will employ child-brain of IoT (Miller,
2015).

Project Requirements
Item Name Purpose
Cable modem The cable modem will used to avail internet to our home.
Registration The server will allow our home appliance generated system and status
messages to be stored in the server. All the home appliance events will be
accessed through this server.
Digital Logic
Controller
Integrates home appliances to the internet for access of the devices over
the internet
Home
appliances in
use
Our home appliances to be monitored and controlled are wind detectors,
motion detector, lawn sprinkler, ceiling fan and temperature monitor.

Physical Diagram

Wireless technology
 Wireless connection refers to the technique of information
transmission or communication over a certain distance without
using wires or cables. The invention of radio frequency wireless
technology has allowed physical things to communicate with
other physical items without use of wires, cables nor electrical
conductors. This has made IoT a reality (Wong, 2011 ).

Radio Frequency
 Radio Frequency concerns about data transmission via a number
of available radio frequencies. Available technologies include but
are not limited to Zigbee, Wi-Fi, LoRa and SigFox. These
technologies have different capabilities of enabling device
communication. In our project, we will be using Wi-Fi technology
which will be used for mid-range network communication (Sobot,
2012 ).

Wi-Fi
 Wi-Fi is the most commonly used communication standard. It
functions in the 2.4 GHz band. The rollout of 5G network Wi-Fi
plays a wide role in wireless information transmission (Afif
Osseiran, 2016 ).

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