ABSTRACT

This project is about finding a solution mainly for the elderly people and physically

challenged people to make more convenient and more reliable in operating the home

appliances. Mobile communication technology is playing a major role of automation.

This project is basically on reliable home control for switching ON and OFF the

appliances remotely using Smart phone application. While using this technology the

system improves the living standard at home, reduces human effort, energy efficient

and ease of access and thus make a smart home. The proposed system consist of

Bluetooth module, NodeMCU, 4channel relay module. This module controls the

home appliances with a very ease of installation and it is user friendly.

Keywords: NodeMCU, Android, Blynk.

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

ABSTRACT IV

LIST OF FIGURES xi

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Home automation 3

1.2 Functions 3

1.3 Objectives of home automation 5

1.4 Benefits of home automation 6

2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 7

2.1 Basic Idea 7

2.2 Cloud 8
2.3 Proposed Block Diagram 8
2.4 Block Diagram 9

3 HARDWARE AND CIRCUIT DIAGRAM 10

3.1 Circuit Diagram 10
3.2 NodeMcu 11
3.3 Relay Diagram 12
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4 CREATING CONTROLS BUTTONS

IN BLUNK APP 14

4.1 Software Interface 14

5 IMPLEMENTATION 17

5.1 Introduction 17

5.2 Description 18
5.3 Methodology 18

6 CONCLUSION 21

7 REFERENCES 22

NOMENCLATURE

ABBREVIATION:

IOT INTERNET OF THINGS

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 CHAPTER-1

INTRODUCTION

In our Current era, Home automation is become more beneficial

because of its safety and security. Nowadays, home automation became more
advance and precise to operate all the home appliances. Home automation
system become energy efficient and highly approachable smart home technique.
It involves basic features to maintain the user satisfaction and comfort. This
proposed system is a precise combination of Android smart phone and
embedded system which include NodeMCU, Wi-Fi module, Bluetooth module
and Relay circuit. In this paper, we used a wireless technology to operate the
device. An android application is installed in a mobile device i.e. android smart
phone and it has inbuilt switch interface of all the appliances separately in it.
Through which all the respective devices can be control and monitor
individually. The Wi-Fi module receives the command from mobile phone and
passes to relay circuit. As per the given signal from the user, the relay circuit
switched ON/OFF the respective devices. The main purpose of using Wi-Fi
wireless technology is to provide a greater extent to range and better feasibility.

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 LITERATURE REVIEW

• R. Piyare refers to wireless lifestyle which gives us relief from “cable chaos”.
To control the electronic appliances through the mobile phone and Arduino
is more efficient than the using of electric switches because it makes the
system cost effective and long lasting to use.

• An automated home can be a very simple grouping of controls, or it can be

heavily automated where any appliance that is plugged into electrical power
is remotely controlled. Costs mainly include equipment, components,
furniture, and custom installation.

• Home automation is designed to introduce convenience and efficiency to a

home. People living with physical handicaps may rely on the features of a
home automation system to accomplish tasks that might otherwise be
difficult or impossible.

• Most of the automation works using the online but in this project it can be
used offline as well.

• In Bluetooth based home automation system the home appliances are

connected to the Arduino BT board at input output ports using relay. The
program of Arduino BT board is based on high level interactive C language
of microcontrollers; the connection is made via Bluetooth. The password
protection is provided so only authorized user is allowed to access the
appliances. The Bluetooth connection is established between Arduino BT
board and phone for wireless communication.

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1.1 HOMEAUTOMATION

Automation is the process of automatically performing everyday functions

around the home to save you time, energy, money and at the same time offering
improved security.

The automation is performed by a central controller. This can be either a

standalone unit or a piece of software on a PC. Both options have their
advantages.

1.2 FUNCTIONS

Send signals to switch lights and appliances on or off. Open and close contacts
to operate high and low voltage devices. Schedule and initiate events, such as
watering the garden Issue and accept infra-red commands Interface with other
systems, i.e. X 10, telephone, computer, heating etc.

Home automation is anything that gives you remote or automatic control of

things in & around the home. The systems that you can control include:
Lighting, Appliances, Heating and cooling, Security and monitoring systems,
Entertainment (home audio and video), Communications (telephones and
intercoms, internet), Lawn sprinklers, Curtain movements, Pool filter pump,
Spa heater, Filtration unit, Gate/garage door motor, Shade motor control, Roof
sprinklers, Electric strikes, Keyless entry etc.
This central controller can be accessed and controlled through interfaces like
keypad, wired or wireless touch-screens (with/without video), universal
remotes, mobile devices. Home automation provides a more convenient &
elegant atmosphere for the family to compliment and match the lifestyle.
Everyone in the family experiences the comfort of automation with added
convenience through integrated control of scheduled common lifestyle

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activities performed every day. An automated home can provide security,
temperature, lighting, and audio control for comfort, convenience, and safety.
It creates reliable and coordinated controls to operate home devices
automatically for simplifying operations.

Home automation saves your time and effort by controlling you home
automatically for performing routine functions such as watering your grass, or
turning off all lights, setting the thermostat to economy mode, control scheduled
appliances operation and arming the security system when you retire for the
night.

Home automation provides you with the comfort of whole home audio/video
integration so that any source could be placed anywhere in a home and still be
enjoyed everywhere in a home.

Home automation provides you pro-active home security so that you can look
in on your home remotely from anywhere in the world, or that your home will
phone you if it finds anything suspicious, or that a fire will alert your home to
wake you, shut down the gas and ventilation system, turn on a lighting path for
your escape, and automatically phone the fire/police department. In other words
it integrates your alarm system with other home systems for a response to
intrusion that meets your needs of enhanced Safety.

The term 'home automation' is now acknowledged as covering most I.T.,

automation, communication and wiring aspects of our homes. Most of these
functions can be installed independently of each other, but the real benefits of
the automated home are realized when these different aspects communicate with
each other. For example, having two PC’s networked together in the home,
giving both users access to the internet may seem like the forefront of
technology, but imagine if they were tied into our house wiring and could turn
lights and appliances on and off automatically when we are away from home,
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even via the internet. Imagine that the PC was networked into our security
system and could display images from our home security cameras onto our
computer screen at work. Imagine that your security system was tied into your
telephone and could ring your mobile in the event of a burglary, you could even
talk to visitors to your door from anywhere in the world.

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF HOME AUTOMATION

Home Automation Saves Money by lowering your monthly utility bills

with the remote & scheduled control of lights, appliances, sprinklers and

your air conditioning

1. Never walk into a dark home again.

2. Have the porch light automatically turn on when you open the front
door after dark. Lighting and audio controls can make a vacant home
look and sound occupied.
3. You could set your Omni home control system to automatically call
you at work when your child comes home from school and keys in his
security code into the security system.
4. Call your home control system over the phone to make changes to
your system.
5. Log into your home control system over the Internet via Snap-Link or
we blink II and change your temperature settings.
6. Set the temperature setting on your Omni state to automatically turn
up when the security system is armed in the morning. It is then
automatically turned down one-half hour before you normally get
home in order for you to arrive home to a comfortable house.

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 7. If you are leaving early from work, you can call into your home
control system to manually set the temperature to where you want it
to be when you get home.

1.4 THE REAL BENEFITS OF HOME AUTOMATION

Most controllers will offer all of the above plus more. When you use controllers
connected in the appropriate fashion, you can realize all sorts of benefits,
limited primarily by your imagination.

For example:-

When on holiday or working late, have the lights come on automatically and
draw the curtains. Set room moods, i.e. one button push to switch off the main
light, dim the perimeter lights and switch the surround sound system on ready
to play a movie.
At dusk, check that the garage door is closed. Switch on the electric blanket
whilst you're sitting on your sofa. The controller can be either standalone or
combined into a security system to give additional benefits.

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2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

2.1 BASIC IDEA

Basic idea of Smart Home automation using Cloud services is controlling the
home appliances remotely over the internet.

Homes of the 21st century will become more and more self-controlled and
automated due to the comfort it provides, especially when employed in a private
home. A home automation system is a means that allow users to control electric
appliances of varying kind.

Many existing, well-established home automation systems are based on wired

communication. This does not pose a problem until the system is planned well
in advance and installed during the physical construction of the building. But
for already existing buildings the implementation cost goes very high. In
contrast, Wireless systems can be of great help for automation systems. With
the advancement of wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, cloud networks in the
recent past, wireless systems are used every day and everywhere.

We will present a Smart Home System (SHS) using ARDUINO UNO

ATMEGA328 that employs the integration of cloud networking, wireless
communication, energy monitoring, or weather stations, capturing the photo of
a person moving around the house and storing it onto the cloud.SHS is to
provide the user with remote control of various lights, fans, and appliances

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within their home and storing the data in the cloud. The system will
automatically change on the basis of sensors’ data. This system is designed to
be low cost and expandable allowing a variety of devices to be controlled

2.2 CLOUD:

Home automation systems face four main challenges, these are high cost of
ownership, inflexibility, poor manageability, and difficulty in achieving
security. The main objectives of this research is to design and implement a home
automation system using IoT that is capable of controlling and automating most
of the house appliances through an easy manageable web interface. The
proposed system has a great flexibility by using Wi-Fi technology to
interconnect its distributed sensors to home automation server. This will
decrease the deployment cost and will increase the ability of upgrading, and
system reconfiguration.

2.3 PROPOSED BLOCK DIAGRAM:

The proposed system is a distributed home automation system, consists of

server, sensors. Server controls and monitors the various sensors, and can be
easily configured to handle more hardware interface module (sensors). The Intel
Galileo development board, with built in Wi-Fi card port to which the card is
inserted, acts as web server. Automation System can be accessed from the web
browser of any local PC in the same LAN using server IP, or remotely from any
PC or mobile handheld device connected to the internet with appropriate web
browser through server real IP (internet IP). Wi-Fi 33 technology is selected
to be the network infrastructure that connects server and the sensors. Wi-Fi_33
is chosen to improve system security (by using secure Wi-Fi connection), and
to increase system mobility and scalability.

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2.4 BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Google
assistant

IFTT Blynk server

User
interface Blynk app NodeMcu
Relay board
(via board
internet)

User Bluetooth app Bluetooth

Home
interface module
applications
(offline
mode)

Output

Fig 2.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM

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 CHAPTER-3

HARDWARE AND CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

3. 1 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:

Fig 3.1 – CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

3.2 NODEMCU

Fig 3.2 NODEMCU PINOUT

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NodeMCU is an open source firmware for which open source prototyping board
designs are available. The name "NodeMCU" combines "node" and "MCU"
(micro-controller unit). The term "NodeMCU" strictly speaking refers to the
firmware rather than the associated development kits.

3.3 RELAY DIAGRAM

Fig 3.3 RELAY

Relays control one electrical circuit by opening and closing contacts in another
circuit. When a relay contact is normally open (NO), there is an open contact
when the relay is not energized. In electromechanical relays (EMR), contacts
are opened or closed by a magnetic force.

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 Fig 3.4 BLUETOOTH MODULE

3.4 BLUETOOTH DEVELOPMENT:

3.4.1 MODULE

Bluetooth serial modules allow all serial enabled devices to

communicate with each other using Bluetooth. It has 6 pins, 1. Key/EN: It is
used to bring Bluetooth module in AT commands mode. If Key/EN pin is set to
high, then this module will work in command mode.

Enable - This pin is used to set the Data Mode or and AT command mode (set
high).

VCC - This is connected to +5V power supply.

Ground - Connected to ground of powering system.

Tx (Transmitter) - This pin transmits the received data Serially.

Rx (Receiver) - Used for broadcasting data serially over Bluetooth.

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 CHAPTER-4

CREATING CONTROL BUTTONS IN BLUNK APP

4.1 SOFTWARE INTERFACE:

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A software interface is created between the microcontroller and the appliances
using a Blynk server. This is created for the purpose to work in the offline
mode as well. The below image explains the development of Bluetooth module
for the project.

Fig 5.1 - IFTTT

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FIG.5.2 BLYNK APP
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT

5.1 Introduction

In this project we can control four electrical appliances like light, fan, led, and
table fan. These four appliances are been connected to the relay board, this relay
board is connected to the microcontroller and the microcontroller acts as a brain
of this system. NodeMcu Esp8266 version of the microcontroller has been used
in the project and the microcontroller is used to connect to a Wi-Fi channel.
Using the internet, NodeMcu can communicate with blynk server (Bluetooth
module). The user data’s are sent to the blynk server and these data are then
sent to the NodeMcu board.

The voice command works by the following methods: The respected voice
command are sent to IFFT server and then the IFFT server starts to
communicate with the blynk server depending on the kind of command given
to it. The blynk server send’s the data to the microcontroller to switch “ON” the
respective relay and correspondingly for switching “OFF”.

When the internet is disconnected then the system goes to offline mode, here
the Bluetooth module is used as a data receiver in the absence of internet and it
requires a special software for user interface. Using the data from the Bluetooth
app the module controls the microcontroller respectively.

Home automation has been around since World War I. A television remote was
first patented in 1950 and a remote control device was first used by the Germans
in World War I to control motorboats. From there, the evolution of controllers
and automation has been growing and still continue to grow to this day.

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5.2 Description

A relay consist of three pins, the middle pin is the input pin, and other two pins
are normally closed and normally open connections that are connected
depending upon the requirement.

5.2.1 Methodology

When the relay is powered by receiving a signal from the microcontroller, the
relay input pin contact to the other pin which closes the circuit and thus switch
“ON” the appliances. The four appliance that have been connected consist of
two supply pins phase and neutral one of the two pins are connected to the
appliances directly and the other supply is connected to the appliances through
these relay so once the relay is powered on the circuit then the circuit gets closed
and thus the appliances get powered.

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 Fig.5.1 wiring diagram

Reference: https://www.14core.com/wiring-bluetooth-hc06-4-channel-
relay-switching-automation-with-android/

Fig.5.2 Project

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Fig.5.3 Connection

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 CHAPTER-6

CONCLUSIONS:

This project is developed to make a smart home automation system using

microcontroller, Bluetooth module. Their main requirements was: a system that
could be operated using by an app, voice control to operate the appliances from
anywhere. The differently-abled, old peoples will be the most beneficiary of this
system as they can operate the appliances independently. The system requires a Wi-
Fi or an internet connection to function and in the absence of internet connection,
Bluetooth connection is been used to function the operation efficiently. So, we
proposed this system which to be highly energy saving and reliable and make people
feel more comfortable and satisfied. Now everyone can utilize this technology to
operate the appliances. The home automation system has been experimentally
proven to work satisfied by connecting sample appliances to it and the application
were successfully controlled from a wireless mobile device. We learned many skills
such as soldering wiring the circuit and other tools that we use for this project and
was able to work together as a team during this project. The Bluetooth client was
successfully tested on a multitude of different mobile phones from different
manufacturers, thus proving its portability and wide compatibly. Thus a low- cost
home automation system was successfully designed. Implement and tested.

Day by day, the field of automation is blooming and these systems are having
great impact on human beings. The project which is to be implemented is a home
automation using Easy IOT Webserver and WIFI and has very good future
development. In the current system webserver is installed on a windows PC so the
home appliances can be controlled using only by using the device on which
webserver is installed. This can be further developed installing webserver on cloud.
Advantage of installing webserver on the cloud is that home can be controlled by
using any device which has an internet connection and a web browser. By visiting
the IP address of the cloud the control actions can be taken.
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