Home: IOT based home automation using NFC

One of the emerging technologies in today's World having spread its usefulness in a wide variety of domains is near-field communication. From automation of student's attendance monitoring to the ticketing system, it has been widely accepted across many countries. Its main feature lies in automation like automating car for locking/unlocking car doors, switching in GPS, turning on radio/speakers etc. The internet of things has given us opportunity to automate our home appliance and control it from a certain distance. A home automation system has become a trend, which gives a convenient way for users to personalize artifacts in home using sensors, Bluetooth and android system. This paper proposes the architecture for home automations using near field communication and general packet radio service along with a mobile application. The near-field communication is used as the central system in this paper to automate home environment for a user by locking and unlocking doors, lighting, air conditioning, switching on/off fans, personal computer, mobile, television as near field communication helps in providing energy efficiency and required security.