Customary homes to smart homes using Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile application

With an exponential advancement of automation technology, the future of manual systems are changing into automatic systems for various benefits. Also, internet has become an integral part of one's life where Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest and emerging internet technology that has changed the way one looks at things. Internet of things is developing everyday from small scale machines to large scale machines that can share data and accomplish tasks while individuals are occupied with other activities. The main aim of the paper is to design a smart home automation system using IoT, that is to turn a customary home to a smart home for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. To be specific, we aim to design a low cost, extensible, flexible wireless smart home automation system using IoT which employs the integration of wireless communication, cloud networking to provide users to control a variety of devices from remote locations by providing an user friendly interface and ease of installation. This paper presents the design of smart home automation framework that utilizes the combination of cloud networking and wireless communication, to remote control various electrical appliances (like lights, fans), to users within their home using a smart phone. The system will automatically control appliances on the basis of sensors' data by constantly monitoring the home environment and storing sensor data onto the cloud. To exhibit the possibility and adequacy of our framework, electrical appliances (like lights, fans) and sensors have been incorporated within the proposed home control system.