An Internet of Things based prototype for smart appliance control

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly being recognized by researchers, companies and analysts all over the world as one of the most advanced technologies that has the capacity to revolutionize the behaviour of everything around us. It possesses the potential to not only affect the health, safety and productivity of billions of people but also has a major economic impact. Inspired by the idea of “smart technologies” and “home automation”, we propose an IoT framework with smart-sensing based automatic appliance control. This paper presents a method and an implementation technique for the management of smart-appliances. A prototype has been developed and tested to verify the efficacy of the implemented technique. The results show that such prototypes can be influential in making home appliances smart enough to operate only when required. The broad application of the proposed work will lead to greater economic benefits, in terms of increasing infrastructure intelligence, and will also have social impacts in terms of global sustainability.