Internet of Things (IoT) enabled Sustainable Home Automation along with Security using Solar Energy

Home automation is a very important part of “The Internet of Things” popularly called as IoT. IoT provides a solution for seamless control over all the appliances at home. Home automation exists since many decades for controlling basic equipments of home like the lights and simple appliances. Present Technology expects the world to be interconnected with a touch of fingerprints or simple voice commands. The aim of it is to design and construct a home automation system which will switch on or off any household devices that are connected to it, using microcontroller, mobile or Alexa with the help of Wi-Fi. It is socially relevant and its implementation is cost effective. In our project controlling of appliances or equipment is through Alexa or mobile. We have also included an important aspect that is home security by making provisions for door (open and close), movement, fire and gas leak detection. The controllers used here are Node MCU and Arduino mini for automation and security respectively. We are using solar panels as the source of power for the equipments. It has a charging unit and a smart power management unit.