IoT Enabled Home Automation for Differently Challenged and Elderly People Using Gesture and Voice Recognition

A Home Automation system provides access to household appliances and is beneficial to Differently challenged and Elde rly people, who have problems with locomotion. It is proven that a Home Automation system makes the disabled and the elderly people independent and makes their lives easier and more standardized. A glove-based Home Automation system is implemented using the method of gesture recognition. Patients operate the appliances by processing the simple hand gestures made by wearing the glove. The caretaker controls the appliances via Google Assistant and Mobile Application. Along with it, they can vie w the current status of the de vice s and time and date of the previous activity made by the patient. Thus, the system is efficient, cost effective and energy conserving.