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IOT Based Home Automation System Using

Raspberry Pi with Web Server
Katta Nagendra Babu1, Khagga Vijaya Lakshmi2, K ondaveeti Sai Bhargavi3, Akula Ravi 4, Katta Sasidhar5
U.G. Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CIET, Lam, Guntur, India1
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CIET, Lam, Guntur, India2
U.G. Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CIET, Lam, Guntur, India3
U.G. Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CIET, Lam, Guntur, India4
U.G. Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CIET, Lam, Guntur, India5

ABSTRACT: This documentation presents a cloud-based home automation system implemented using the Raspberry
pi. This is a proof of concept for a home (industry) that can be monitored and controlled remotely from anywhere in the
world via the Internet. A “connected” home like this can make life more convenient and also safer. The remote
monitoring aspect of this project demonstrates the ability of being able to know what is going on with different systems
at home which can be used for control and safety. For example, we can monitor the temperature for ambient control,
the state of some sensors for intruder detection and the state of different devices like fans or lights at home. It is also
demonstrated using a few motors, how one can control different systems at home using the cloud service via the
Internet. So, a virtual “switch” available in the cloud UI can be toggled to turn on/off a fan or open/close a garage door
at home. This project has a very large scope and can be integrated with many other systems like smart electronic
appliances at home. This documentation describes the project implementing the basic framework to achieve such a
connected home. It gives a summary of hardware and software in the current implementation of the project, future
improvements and scope.

KEYWORDS: Home Automation, Smart Home,Automation, IOT,Webserver, Raspberry Pi Projects.

I. INTRODUCTION

The cloud-based home automation project is inspired by the necessity to monitor and control the home remotely in an
affordable way. Today, technology innovations are being focused more than ever on the Internet of Things (IoT). A
world where everything is smart and connected is already work in progress. The Sky Link Home Smart Centre AM-
100A and advanced home controllers like the ISY994i that operate only with INSTEON devices are few of the
available solutions today. The majority of these require compatible appliances to be purchased posing a serious
limitation to adapting these solutions. This project was inspired by the fact that integrated home automation systems
today are expensive in terms of installation and regular maintenance. Some of them are difficult to operate due to the
required interface learning during setup. The presented prototype aims to use as few resources as possible to
demonstrate a simple and low cost connected home. It consists of a base node connected to a cloud service (hosted
externally) where we can check the status of different appliances and sensors at home.
This system can be used for controlling the indoor & outdoor lights, heat, ventilation, air conditioning in the house, to
lock or open the doors & gates, to control electrical & electronic appliances and so on using various control systems
with appropriate sensors.
We can Set Schedule timings hence no power loss. (through programming).Guard your home, you can create an alarm
that will alert you if there's movement in your house.You can also Broadcast a Live Stream of your Home to help you
keep an eye on it while you're away.

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II. LITERATURE SURVEY

In the existing system, the studies on Home Automation System focuses on addressing the problems or power
consumption range of operation and cost of the whole system. To automate the appliances, various methods are used
like SMS and Email. The work presented here is focused on fast and easily accessible of a wireless smart home
automation system to reduce the manual work and everyone accesses this system. It is having low cost, secure, and
access fast as compared to the previous systems.
Piyare&Tazil [1] et al. proposed the work on this by using the Bluetooth technology for Home Automation System
using an Arduino board as well as the wireless system. Through a Bluetooth connection, a cell phone or mobile device
is used to send commands to the Bluetooth antenna of the Arduino board but the disadvantage in this is that it is
applicable only for the short distance.
D. Pavithra et al. [2] proposed a work on IoT based Monitoring and Control System for Home Automation and it used
the portable devices for the user interface. They can communicate with Internet gateway, by using low power
communication protocols like ZigBee, WI-Fi, etc. It makes web portal to interact with the devices at home and web
portal is accessed via Smartphone. It doesn’t provide security to their system and limited no. of devices are used in their
work.
B. Pandya et al. [3] proposed a work on Android Based Home Automation System using Bluetooth & voice command.
It used an Arduino microcontroller for connecting the appliances, a Bluetooth module for transferring the signal which
is running on Smartphone an Android application. The limitation of this work is that it uses a microcontroller which
converts the byte signal into string format so there must be a delay in the system.
Rajeev Piyare and Seong Ro Lee [4] present a low cost and flexible home control as well as monitoring system. In this
system an embedded micro-web server is used for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely, using
Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system architecture is divided into three layers: home environment,
home gateway and remote environment. The proposed home automation system two types of software; one for server
application (it is a library implementation of a micro Web-server running on Arduino Uno using the Ethernet shield to
communicate between remote user and the Home Gateway) and other is for microcontroller firmware.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

As the system uses Raspberry Pi, Relay circuit, Pi camera are the main part of the project here the Raspberry Pi acts as
a web server and as well as microcontroller for programming. As per the Programming done in the Microcontroller, the
Web page isdisplayed on the screen in which the buttons are viewed as On/Off. When clicked on buttons (On), this
feedback is given to the microcontroller. There are 10 GPIO pins which are defined in the microcontroller i.e. pin 5, pin
6, pin 13, pin 19are connected which are given to the 4 relays as shown in the setup figure 2, pins 17 & 23 for servo
motors to controlpan and tilt movements, pins 27 & 22 for ultrasonic sensor, pins 20 & 21 for PIR sensor and Buzzer
respectively. Through HTML& PHP language when theon button is pressed, the data is passed into the server.When
clicked on button, their respective pin goes high and operates relay. Relay will operate, bulb will glow on and the
device will operate and same process will continue same for pins 5,6,13&19.

The proposed system consists of Raspberry Pi, Pi camera, Relay module, PIR sensor, Ultrasonic Sensor, Servo motors,
Web server.

Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized, single board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi
Foundation. The Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 System on a Chip (SoC), which includes an ARM1176JZF-S
700 MHz processor. It has an internal storage of 512 MB, external storage supported up to 32 GB, 1 Ethernet port, 4-
2.0 USB ports, 1 micro SD card slot, DSI display connector, 1 HDMI out port, 1 CSI Camera connector, 5V USB
power, RCA The Raspberry Pi2 B model CPU is of ARM 11 family operates at 700MHz. The GPU having Broadcom
Video core-IV, open GLES 2.0, 1080p30, H.264/MPEG-4, AVC high profile decoder and capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5 G
Texel/s (or) 40 GFLOPs of general-purpose (GPIO) compute. It operates 2A at 5V power supply. With the help of
GPIO pins we can control the devices from any place

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Fig1: Block Diagram of Proposed system

Pi Camera:The Raspberry Pi Camera module is connected to CSI port of raspberry pi. This is an 8 Megapixel night
vision camera used to broadcast a live stream to webpage through raspberry pi, thus, we can watch live stream of our
home from anywhere in the world. This camera is attached to servo motors to rotate (right, left, up and down) the
camera.

Relay Module:A relay is an electrically operated switch. Many relays use an electromagnet to mechanically operate a
switch, but other operating principles are also used, such as solid-state relays. Relays are used where it is necessary to
control a circuit by a separate low-power signal, or where several circuits must be controlled by one signal.

Ultrasonic Sensor: An Ultrasonic sensor is a device that can measure the distance to an object by using sound waves.
It measures distance by sending out a sound wave at a specific frequency and listening for that sound wave to bounce
back. By recording the elapsed time between the sound wave being generated and the sound wave bouncing back, it is
possible to calculate the distance between the sonar sensor and the object.

Fig.2: Ultrasonic sensor basic Concept

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Since it is known that sound travels through air at about 344 m/s (1129 ft/s), you can take the time for the sound wave
to return and multiply it by 344 meters (or 1129 feet) to find the total roundtrip distance of the sound wave. Roundtrip
means that the sound wave traveled 2 times the distance to the object before it was detected by the sensor; it includes
the 'trip' from the sonar sensor to the object and the 'trip' from the object to the Ultrasonic sensor (after the sound wave
bounced off the object). To find the distance to the object, simply divide the roundtrip distance in half.
The Ultrasonic sensor is used to find the water level in the water tank. By calculating the distance of water level from
the top we can control the motor by using microcontroller.

PIR Sensor: A PIR (Passive InfraRed) sensor is a motion detector which detects the heat (infrared) emitted naturally
by humans and animals. When a person in the field of vision of the sensor moves, the sensor detects a sudden change in
infrared energy and the sensor is triggered (activated). They are commonly used in security lighting and alarm systems
in an indoor environment. The PIR sensors have a range of approximately 6 meters, depending on conditions. The
sensor adjusts to slowly changing conditions that occur normally within the environment but shows a high output
response when a sudden change takes place.

Fig.3: Experimental setup

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Web Server: Web server is a program that uses HTTP to serve files that create web pages to users in response to their
requests, which are forwarded by their computers HTTP connection. Any server that delivers an XML document to
another device can be a Web server. A better definition might be that a Web server is an Internet server that responds to
HTTP requests to deliver content and services.

Fig.4: Example for Web Server

For an example, I can say if you are in front of your computer, browsing your Web, and you get a message from a
friend saying, "I had just read a great article! You can check it from the following URL.
It'sathttp://www.fastwebhost.in/blog"So you will type that URL into your browser and press enter.

And that’s it, no matter where the website hosted in the world, the page will be displayed on your computer screen.
Always a web server is connected to the internet. Every Web server that connects to the Internet will be provided with a
unique address which was arranged with a series of four numbers between 0 and 255 separated by periods.Also, web
server enables the hosting providers to manage multiple domains(users) on a single server. A web host is a company
that leases out space on a cluster of servers to empower people to serve their own content & webpages.

IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

The Raspberry Pi is programmed using HTML which is passed using ‘PHP’ ‘Java script’ language. Here a webpage
has been createdto continuously monitored the home appliances through Internet that will be displayed to the user
wherein the user has to establish connection with mobile or PC remotelyaccessing appliances. Figure 5 shows the
browser page which we designed using HTML language as a home page,Once the home page is loaded, the user need
to enter IPaddress (192.168.0.101) to facilitate the further access to controlhome appliances
In the proposed system two devices are considered for demo purpose bulb1, bulb2, on this page wecan control 2
devices just by clicking the menus on the web page, initially all devices willbe in off State i.e. ‘0’ state. The user can
access this system using PC/Mobile. Using this GUI, user interacts with thesystem to control devices.when'0'
statemeans the device will OFF when '1' state means device will be 'ON'.So, in thisway we can turn on and off the
appliances present in our homes. If passive infrared sensor (PIR sensor)sense movement of people, animals, or other
objects it rises an alarm and send the status to web page.

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Fig.5 Screen shots of the proposed Home Automation web page

In Figure 5 shows the different screenshots of web page. In 1st page we can control all the applianceswith single switch,
in 2nd page lights control, in 3rd page fans control, 4thcamera live stream page with servo rotation control, 5th& 6th sensor
status pages.

V. CONCLUSION

The home automation using Internet of Things has been experimentally proven to work satisfactorily by connecting
simple appliances to it and the appliances were successfully controlled remotely through internet. The designed system
not only monitors the sensor data, like temperature, gas, light, motion sensors, but also actuates a process according to
the requirement, for example switching on the light when it gets dark. It also stores the sensor parameters in the cloud
in a timely manner. This will help the user to analyze the condition of various parameters in the home anytime

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anywhere.The code provided is generic and flexible in a user-friendly manner and can be extended for any
futureapplications like power control, surveillance, etc., easily. Moreover, this technique is better than other home
automationmethods is several ways.
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