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Smart Home Automation System using IR, Bluetooth, GSM and Android.
Anuja Shinde1, Shobha Kanade2, Namrata Jugale3, Abhijeet Gurav4, Rambabu A. Vatti5,
M. M. Patwardhan6.
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra.

Abstract: In this busy life while away from home appliances i.e. ON/OFF wirelessly on an android
we may tend to forget to switch off the AC application over long distance.
appliances which cause wastage of energy.
Misuse of power energy can be curtailed by Home automation is also known as domotics. This
automating the devices and appliances. In Home involves the control and automation of lighting,
automation household appliances and heating, ventilation, air conditioning, security. It
residential house features like gates, curtains etc also includes control and automation of home
are controlled automatically or semi - appliances such as washers/dryers, ovens or
automatically. Some of the currently available refrigerators/ freezers. Home automation is a
systems provide a view of the house from a web modern technology that transforms your home to
application; but this can cause trouble to the an extent that it can perform different sets of tasks
user. Because user must access the web each automatically. This technology is constantly
time he/she wishes to view the status of the home upgrading its versatility by integrating modernized
appliances. In this paper a home automation features to fulfil the increasing demands of people
system that uses IR remote, Bluetooth and GSM .Main purpose of home automation system is to
to control AC appliances using android app is save electricity. Smart home automation facilitates
introduced that is easy to use over the user comfortable living and energy management
traditional method of the switch. Therefore, the features as well as added benefits for disabled
motivation behind the development of this individuals.
system is to let people know about these
technologies, and make the system as simple as Home automation systems have varying degree of
possible for an ordinary person to understand. intelligence and automation. It can range from
The result of this research is the implementation simple remote control of lighting to complex
of home automation system which involves microcontroller based networks. The main
control and automation of home appliances characteristic of home automation system is remote
through mobile application from remote monitoring and access of home appliances and
locations. systems. Use of home automation systems causes
home appliances to communicate in an integrated
Keywords: GSM (Global System for Mobile manner. It helps to obtain several factors such as
Communication); SMS (Short Message Service); convenience, energy efficiency and safety benefits.
HAS (Home Automation System);IR (Infrared Most of the present systems are not reasonable for
Radiations); Bluetooth, Android, App inventor.
many people due to their high costs and exhausting
maintenance. Some systems provide solutions that
are not very useful for household applications. In
I. INTRODUCTION this project, IR remote, Bluetooth and GSM are the
Nowadays we are moving towards smart and methods used for home automation.
secure ways to live. Automation and android phone
plays a major role to live smartly and securely. II. RELATED WORK
Home automation is a remotely controllable
This paper is a demonstration of controlling
network to which lights, appliances, electrical
electrical home appliances such as tubes, dryers,
outlets, heating and cooling systems are connected.
oven etc using three methods i.e. IR remote,
Today, automation system require to control the
Bluetooth and GSM. Arduino IDE is used to
AC appliances and get the current status back of
develop a sketch for Arduino and MIT App

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inventor is used to develop app for android phone. B. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

The proposed home automation system is Fig. 2 shows detailed circuit diagram of home
affordable, easy to use and comfortable. It has automation system using IR remote, Bluetooth and
enhanced performance energy saving features. GSM. This system can be operated in two ways:

Various methods have been proposed for (a)Automated and (b) Conventional.
development of home automation systems. Some
Home automation systems describe the IoT a. AUTOMATED
approach to control various home appliances. It This Home automation system uses IR remote,
uses Bluetooth and GSM for interaction between Bluetooth, GSM and Android App to control
android mobile application and the appliances appliances. Electrical appliances are controlled
under the control of system [1].[2] Describes how with clicks on Android application. Instructions are
to command and control home gadgets using sent to Arduino through GSM module, Bluetooth
mobile phone, people can use this system to control module and TSOP 1738.
devices in their home from a great distance before
they reach home. The user sends a instruction in
form of SMS to control a device/appliance from
his/her mobile phone to a computer which is
connected to the appliance; once the message is
received the computer will send the command to a
microcontroller for controlling the appliance
properly.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM OF HOME

AUTOMATION USING IR, BLUETOOTH
AND GSM.
A. BLOCK DIAGRAM
Fig. 1 shows block diagram of home automation
system using IR remote, Bluetooth and GSM. 8 Fig. 2. Circuit Diagram of Home Automation
digital I/O pins of Arduino are interfaced with relay System
module. Home appliances are interfaced with
NO/NC of relay module. External 5 volts power
supply is provided for Arduino and relay module a. CONVENTIONAL
Conventional way means normally all the
and 12 volts power supply for GSM module.
electrical appliances are controlled using
“Switches” through switch board. Any person
who wishes to make device “ON/OFF”
without using HAS can use specific switch on
the switch board attached to device. To
integrate this, relays are connected through
“Two Way Switch” as shown in fig.3. [3]

Fig. 1. Block Diagram of Home Automation

System Fig.3. Two Way Switch Connection with
Relay.

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C. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY 4. Bluetooth Module:

1. Arduino UNO: Bluetooth module used in this project is HC-05. It
The Arduino Uno is an Atmega328 based is easy to use serial port module. It is designed for
microcontroller board. This microcontroller board transparent wireless serial connection setup. The
has 14 digital I/O pins [4] out of which 8 pins we module requires 3.3V to 5V power supply [7].
have used for interfacing home appliances. It also When a specific button is pressed on Bluetooth
has a USB connection, power jack and a reset screen of android application data is sent serially
button. It is used to decode the signals sent by IR using Bluetooth of Smartphone to Bluetooth
remote, Bluetooth and GSM and accordingly send interfaced with Arduino. Further Arduino decodes
the control signal to relay module. Bluetooth this data and takes actions based on data sent. At
module HC-05 and GSM module SIM800 are the same time Arduino sends back the data of
serially interfaced with Arduino. IR receiver TSOP current status of devices to Smartphone Bluetooth.
1738 is interfaced to digital input pin of Arduino
Uno.

Fig. 4. Arduino UNO

2. Android Fig. 6. Bluetooth Module HC-05

Android is operating system for mobile initially
developed by Android INC, which is based on
Linux kernel. Google bought it in 2005. The 5. TSOP 1738
android operating system has gone through The TSOP 1738 is an IR receiver. TSOP 17xx has
multiple major releases. The current version of active low output. Output signal which is
android is 7.0 “Nougat” which is released in august demodulated by TSOP can directly be decoded by
2016 [5]. The application which we have a microcontroller. It consumes low power and has
developed for Bluetooth and GSM works on high immunity against ambient light [8]. When a
Android operating system. button is pressed on IR remote it transmits infrared
signals. These signals are demodulated by TSOP
3. GSM Module and then decoded by Arduino. After that Arduino
SIM 800c is a GSM/ GPRS module. It is designed sends control signals to relay module according to
for global market [6]. When a specific button is that devices switch ON/OFF as per the button
pressed on GSM home automation screen of pressed.
application, SMS from Smartphone is sent to the
GSM module SIM800c interfaced with Arduino.
Based on SMS sent appliances are switched
ON/OFF. At the same time Arduino sends current
status of the devices by SMS via GSM module to
Smartphone.

Fig.7. IR receiver TSOP 1738

Fig. 5. GSM Module

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6. Relay Module
A relay module is used to turn on or turn off home
appliances using voltage and/or current much more
than Arduino could handle. This is also used for
providing isolation between the low voltage circuit
on Arduino side and the high voltage circuit side
controlling home appliances. Relay module is
activated by using external 5V power supply,
which in turn, controls electrical appliances like
fans, lights, ovens etc. In this project 8-channel DC
5V relay module is used. It is equipped with high
current relay, AC250V 10A and DC 30V 10 A. In
it each relay needs 15-20mA driver current [9].

Fig. 8. 8-channel Relay Module

7. Power supply circuit

The elementary unit of any electronic system is the
power supply which provides required power for Fig.9. Screenshots of Android Application
system’s operation. In this project +5V supply is
used for Arduino and relay module. +12V power
supply is used for GSM module SIM 800. [10]
IV. PERFORMANCE AND EXPERIMENTS

8. Mit App inventor and android app

a. MIT APP INVENTOR

We have used MIT App inventor to develop
android application for Bluetooth and GSM
features. It is initially provided by Google. Now it
is maintained by Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). It is an open source web
application for android [11]. Apps created in app
inventor (.apk files) can be ported to any android
smart phone.

b. ANDROID APP
The app on the Smartphone sends data and SMS Fig. 10. Actual Installed Setup
when you click on buttons via Bluetooth and GSM
respectively from the mobile to Bluetooth module
HC-05 connected with Arduino board.
Microcontroller board processes the received data
and controls the relay board accordingly.

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Sr. Android Android version Screen VI. CONCLUSION

no. phone size in Home automation market is very auspicious sector
inch
which is developing rapidly. It requires extensive
1 iBallAndi 2.2”Froyo” 3.5 range of developments that can be made in the idea
2 Oppo A37f Color OS 5.1 of smart homes. Modelling and execution of home
automation system using IR remote, Bluetooth and
GSM through android application has been
3 Micro-Max 2.3 4
bolt A-35 “Gingerbread” discussed in this paper. The proposed system is
practical, economical and simple. Using IR remote
commands are transmitted that are decoded by
4 Redmi Note 6.0.1 5.5
4 “Marshmallow” TSOP. While using Bluetooth the motive of the
system is to use mobile phones integral feature for
5 Samsung 6.0.1 5.5
automating the home. As the range of GSM is
galaxy j7 “Marshmallow”
worldwide people can use the home automation
6 Motorola 7.0 “Nougat” 5.5 system from any part of the world. The key
Moto G4
advantage of system is if control circuit fails then
plus
manual switching option of traditional method is
Table1: Android Mobiles/ Smart phones on available.
which Home Automation system application is
tested. VII. FUTURE WORKS
In future home automation systems can make
V. RESULTS homes even more intelligent. This system can be
used for building automation, industrial
automation, hospital automation for patients and
agricultural automation for farmers. Different
sensors can be interfaced with this system such as
motion sensors, light sensors, flame sensors,
temperature sensors etc to provide safety and
control benefits. Automated toggling of devices
based on certain situation can also be implemented.
Wi-fi and Ethernet based home automation systems
can be developed.

Fig. 11. Hardware Setup REFERENCES

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