Smart Light Control Using Thermal Sensor As Human Presence Detection

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the technologies that are currently growing and develop really fast. By using and utilizing IoT to the fullest, we can make our daily activities in live a lot easier. For example, with IoT technologies we can control the use of electricity consumption in our home remotely with ease. With this very fast development on IoT, we want to try to use IoT technologies and apply these technologies to our daily lives. Therefore, we trying to create a smart lighting system that can allow us to save more on electricity usage by only turning on the light when it detects presence of human. The system is utilizing thermal sensor to detecting human presence. Thermal camera is chosen rather than motion sensor because by using computer vision, this system is much more accurate than using motion sensor, and also by using thermal sensor it solved privacy problem that plague normal camera system.