IoT Based Intelligent Home Automation Using Automated Smart Devices

The concept of “Smart Home” is becoming increasingly popular in recent times. Technological advances in IoT have brought “Smart” Devices capable of much more than just sensing physical parameters. This paper aims to explore and demonstrate the possibility of creating custom made Smart Devices using open-source generic hardware components and integrate the said devices with the pre-existing Smart Devices to implement an IoT based Smart Home environment. In this paper a Smart Home System titled “IoT Based Intelligent Home Automation Using Automated Smart Devices” is designed and implemented. The proposed Smart Home System ((Hereafter referred as SHS)) consists of three Smart Devices out of which one is an Alexa Smart Speaker. Smart Energy Meter (Hereafter referred as SEM / Smart Energy Meter) and Smart Health Tracker (Hereafter referred as SHT) are the other Smart devices in the SHS. SEM is a Smart Energy Meter which can measure the parameters w.r.t Power (Voltage, Current and Energy Consumed). It also has a subsystem which can detect Gas Leakage or Earthquake and automatically trigger a Power Shutdown to prevent any potential damage. SHT is a Smart Health Tracker which can measure parameters w.r.t Health (Heart Rate, SpO2%, Body Temperature). It can also measure Ambient Temperature and Humidity. It is equipped with a Buzzer-LED Warning system to alert the user when the Vitals fall or increase beyond a standard threshold (depending on the Health Parameter considered). All the devices are connected to Blynk Cloud, where the user data generated from both the devices is stored. The user can view the Parameters being measured by the devices on the respective Blynk Dashboards. Alexa Smart Speaker is used to interact with the devices.