Smart Home Equipment Control System with Raspberry Pi and Yocto

Yocto is a customizable lightweight Linux distribution for embedded devices with any kind of hardware architecture. With the Yocto, it is possible to compile an operating system with the same feature for the different types of hardware in a very short period of time. This paper proposed to use the Yocto with the Raspberry Pi to form a high-speed Internet of Things (IoT) hardware cum software solution with the only specific features that we need. The very common Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi has a number of extra features that are not necessary for some dedicated applications like IoT application, which needs to run only some specific set of tasks. Here in this project, we designed a prototype of a smart home equipment control system with the two different models of Raspberry Pi and this embedded Linux operating system called Yocto. This system is able to control all the home equipment from the control interface display or from the specific website world wise.