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Vol. 6 Issue 03, March-2017

Home Automation Using Microcontroller

(Arduino Uno)
Manish Prasad Pranav Kumar
UG-Student UG-Student
IV Year EEE-DEPT IV Year EEE-DEPT
Gandhi Institute Of Engineering And Technology Gandhi Institute Of Engineering And Technology
GUNUPUR-765022,INDIA GUNUPUR-765022,INDIA

Rohit Kumar Singh Smruti Ranjan Pradhan

UG-Student Assistant Professor
IV Year EEE-DEPT EEE-DEPT
Gandhi Institute Of Engineering And Technology Gandhi Institute Of Engineering And Technology
GUNUPUR-765022,INDIA GUNUPUR-765022,INDIA

Abstract—Automation of the surrounding environment of a II. OBJECTIVES

modern human being allows increasing his work efficiency and
comfort and improves time complexity. There has been a A. To implement home automation and monitoring using
significant development in the area of an individual’s routine advanced technology.
tasks and those can be automated. In the present times, we can
find most of the people clinging to their mobile phones and
B. Use of smart phone to control home appliances from
smart devices throughout the day. Hence with the help of his remote location.
companion – a mobile phone, some daily household tasks can be C. Real time monitoring and controlling of home appliances
accomplished by personifying the use of the mobile phone.
from remote location.
Analyzing the current smart phone market, novice mobile users
are opting for Android based phones. It has become a second D. Power saving and improving overall power efficiency.
name for a mobile phone in layman terms. Home Automation
System (HAS) has been designed for mobile phones having
 A. To Implement Home Automation And Monitor
Android platform to automate an 8 interfaced microcontroller
which controls a number of home appliances like lights, fans,
Using Advanced Technology
bulbs and many more using on/off relay. This paper presents the Recent development in technologies such as WI-FI,GSM
automated approach of controlling the devices in a household and BLUETOOTH has opened wide scope for automation.
that could ease the tasks of using the traditional method of the Moreover with the development of technologies such as
switch. The most famous and efficient technology for short IOT(internet of things) has added to efficiency of this system.
range wireless communication- Bluetooth is used here to Thus enabling users to control their home appliances from far
automate the system of places.
 B Use of Smart Phone To Control home Appliances
Keywords— Arduino Uno, Algorithm, Bluetooth Module,
From Remote location.
Programming, Flow Chart
The home automation using microcontroller and smart
I. INTRODUCTION phone can be installed with ease. Smart phone has become
Due to the recent advancement in wireless technology , an important component in our day to day life. The app used
automation is playing and important role in day to day life of for home automation can be easily downloaded from the
human beings. There is a recent advancement in wireless android app market which is pre installed in every smart
technology such as GSM, WI-FI and Bluetooth ,automation phones.
is gaining importance in the growing market .Home  C . Helpful For Elderly People.
automation represents a great research opportunity in Today we are living in 21st century where automation is
creating new fields in engineering, and computing. However, playing important role in human life. Home automation
end users, especially the disabled and elderly due to their allows us to control household appliances like Light, door,
complexity and cost, do not always accept these systems. fan, AC etc. It also provides home security and emergency
Home automation not only refers to reduce human efforts but system to be activated.
also energy efficiency and time saving. The main objective of  D. Power Saving And Improves Overall Efficiency
home automation and security is to help handicapped and old The home automation system tends to reduce the
aged people who will enable them to control home appliances power loss through smart switching of electrical appliances
and alert them in critical situations. The system is intended to and thus increasing the overall efficiency.
control electrical appliances and devices in house with
relatively low cost design, user-friendly interface and ease of
installation[3].

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III. SCOPES USB, implemented using USB-to-serial adapter chips such as

The project aims at designing a prototype for controlling the the FTDI FT232. Some variants, such as the Arduino Mini
home appliances that can be controlled wirelessly via an and the unofficial Board uno, use a detachable USB-to-serial
application. An application is run on android device. The adapter board or cable, Bluetooth or other methods. (When
system can be used in wide range of areas .The system used with traditional microcontroller tools instead of the
integrated with different features can be applied in the Arduino IDE, standard AVR ISP programming is used.
following fields:- The Arduino board exposes most of the microcontroller's I/O
pins for use by other circuits. The Diecimila, now superseded
 The system can be used in home, small offices to the big by the Duemilanove, for example, provides 14 digital I/O
malls. pins, six of which can produce pulse-width modulated
signals, and six analog inputs. These pins are on the top of
 The system can be used from home to offices to control
the board, via female 0.1 inch headers. Several plug-in
the electrical appliances.
application shields are also commercially available. The
 For remote access of appliances in internet or intranet.
Arduino Nano, and Arduino-compatible Bare Bones Board
 The home/office appliances can be controlled in intra- provide male header pins on the underside of the board to be
network or can be accessed via internet. plugged into solderless breadboards[6].
 For the development of technology friendly environment.
 The system incorporates the use of technology and VI. FLOW CHART
making smart home automation. By the use of day to day
gadgets we can utilize them for different prospective.
 Memory can be used to store the appliance status during START
power failure[2].

IV. SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMMING USED

 Eclipse Android SDK(Software Development Kit) INSTALL APPLICATION
 Arduino ID
 Embedded C/C++
 Java & XML
V. ARDUINO UNO
PAIR THE BLUETOOTH
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the TO ANDROID BT
ATmega328P. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6
can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz
quartz crystal, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP NO
header and a reset button. Simply connect it to a computer
with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or IS BT
battery to get started An Arduino board consists of an 8-bit PAIRED?
Atmel AVR microcontroller with complementary
components to facilitate programming and incorporation into
other circuits. An important aspect of the Arduino is the
standard way that connectors are exposed, allowing the CPU YES
board to be connected to a variety of interchangeable add-on
modules known as shields. Official Arduinos have used the
megaAVR series of chips, specifically the ATmega8, GIVE INSTRUCTIONS
ATmega168, ATmega328, ATmega1280, and ATmega2560.
A handful of other processors have been used by Arduino
compatibles. Most boards include a 5 volt linear regulator and
a 16 MHz crystal oscillator (or ceramic resonator in some NO
variants), although some designs such as the LilyPad run at 8
MHz and dispense with the onboard voltage regulator due to IF INSTRUCTION
RECOGNISED
specific form-factor restrictions. An Arduino's microcontroller
is also pre-programmed with a boot loader that simplifies
uploading of programs to the on-chip flash memory,
compared with other devices that typically need an external
programmer[4].
At a conceptual level, when using the Arduino software PRESS 1,2 ,3,4
stack,all boards are programmed over an RS-232 serial
connection, but the way this is implemented varies by
hardware version. Serial Arduino boards contain a simple
inverter circuit to convert between RS-232-level and TTL-
level signals. Current Arduino boards are programmed via

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case '6':blub1Off();
VII. ALGORITHM USED blub2Off();
char ch; Serial.print("Both Off");
void blub1On(){ break;
digitalWrite(6,1); }
digitalWrite(7,0); }
} }
void blub2On(){ VIII. ADVANTAGES
digitalWrite(8,1);
digitalWrite(9,0);  It is robust and easy to use system.
}  No extra training is required for new users. It is
void blub1Off(){ user friendly.
digitalWrite(6,0);
digitalWrite(7,1);  All the control would be in your hands .
}  A wide range of appliances can be controlled
void blub2Off(){ within the range of Bluetooth.
digitalWrite(8,0);
digitalWrite(9,1);  There is a scope for future advancement through
} the use of IOT.

void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once: I X. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
pinMode(6,OUTPUT); We are grateful to our department of electrical and
pinMode(7,OUTPUT); electronics engineering for helping us to complete our paper.
pinMode(8,OUTPUT);
pinMode(9,OUTPUT); X. CONCLUSION
Serial.begin(9600); This project is based on Android and Arduino platform both
blub1Off(); of which are FOSS (Free Open Source Software)[5]. So the
blub2Off(); overall implementation cost is very cheap and it is affordable
} by a common person. Looking at the current scenario we
have chosen Android platform so that most of the people can
void loop() {
get benefit.
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
if(Serial.available()>0) XI. REFERENCES
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break;

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