IoT Smart Home Assistant for Physically Challenged and Elderly People

Internet of Things (IoT) conceptualizes the objective of remotely connecting and keeping track of the real-world objects though the cyberspace. When it comes to home, this technology can be aptly used to forge it smarter, safer and automated. In this paper, an IoT based smart home assistant has been presented to assist the elderly and physically challenged people to be safe and active at home. Wireless communication technology and Artificial intelligence (AI) based voice recognition is used to enable them to remotely monitor, access and manage appliances, systems and surveillance of the home easily. Hypothesis is designed and tested by considering two use cases and implemented using Arduino, Raspberry-Pi.The results are analyzed and presented.