Comprehensive Smart Home Automation: Network Setup, Fire Prevention, and Network Security using Cisco Packet Tracer

Aim: This paper presents a three-phase approach to smart home automation using Cisco Packet Tracer. Phase 1 establishes the foundational network and integrates IoT devices, ensuring successful packet transfer. In Phase 2, the focus shifts to fire detection and prevention, utilizing smoke detectors and automated water sprinklers. Phase 3 enhances network security through firewall implementation, restricting access to specific IP addresses and blocking ICMP and PING messages. These phases collectively create a robust smart home system, combining device integration, safety measures, and network security, offering enhanced convenience and safety for residents. This work aims to use Cisco Packet Tracer and implement it to design a Smart Home for fire detection and prevention, where home appliances are connected to the router, which in turn is connected to the internet and set up a firewall that adds up network security to the system.