IOT based home automation by using personal assistant

This work discusses the result of the work done in development of a “IoT - Personal Assistant using Raspberry Pi” on Python Platform. The work aims at the development of a personal assistant that helps users interact with household appliances using speech and gesture commands to provide a more interactive and user friendly living experience and integration of various tools and components developed during the execution of the project. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be described as a network of physical objects or “things” embedded with software, electronics, sensors and network connectivity that helps these objects collect and exchange data. The smart devices and sensors in home automation help collect (or sense) the physical experience and convert it into information data. The major element of home automation based on IoT is the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi collects data from sensors or takes in speech or gesture commands and interprets them to manage household devices like fan, light, heater, door, and opening and closing of curtains. For example, if there is no presence of a person in a certain room, the lights are automatically turned off for that particular room.