Survey on Smart Home Automation Systems: Tools, Technology, Architecture and Communication Interfaces

The ascent of the Internet of Things (IoT) is noteworthy in beyond a couple of many years. Its growth affirms its use in various application areas i.e.: agriculture, healthcare, home automation, transportation, etc. Home Automation means extending the current activities performed inside the home with the help of developing cost effective powerful computational devices with user friendly environment by using different technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee. These communication technologies provide controlled environment by different devices like tablet, smart phone and laptop. The Home Automation embeds the smartness in the home with the objective of operating it without any physical interference of human being. Thus, the objective of this paper is to analyse the growing trends of IoT devices to uncover the popular and growing application area i.e.: smart home environment and to have the detailed study of hardware/software tools, architectures and communication interfaces of selected IoT application area like development board, sensors, actuators, communication type, cost, development environment etc. The comparative literature study of selected application area includes the challenges and future research aspects. It will help the researchers to consider various parameters in most favoured IoT application area as per user needs.