Home automation using web application and speech recognition

Home automation — controlling the fans, lights and other electrical appliances in a house using Internet of things is widely preferred in recent days. In this paper, we propose a web application using which the fans, lights and other electrical appliances can be controlled over the Internet. The important features of the web application is that any device connected to the local area network of the house can control the devices and other appliances in the house. The web application used to enable home automation also has a security feature that only enables certain users to access the application. Some lights and fans at home are fully automated based on sensor inputs. Lights are automated based on the inputs from a motion detected and the fans are automated based on the temperature. The door lock can be controlled by giving voice commands. The system has a speech recognition module using Natural Language Processing and hence voice commands can be understood and the home can be automated accordingly.