HOME

AUTOMATION
Re-Designed
By

RAJAT RAJ
EC-17134
2ND YEAR
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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION
The traditional process of controlling home appliances is now a very exhausting
process and even it is responsible for waste of energy. If we need to switch on a
fan then we need to do this by mechanical process. If some comes to your home
when you are watching your favorite TV show then you have leave that show to
just open a door. Imagine if u could do this just by saying a statement like “Alexa,
open the door”. Around all the sectors around us only home is left undigitized.
Now its time to introduce digitalization in housing sectors.
There are many points of views to see this. Suppose you have family member who
is unfit and can’t take care of himself, then what will u do, either you will go for
work or stay at home to take care of him. No there’s another option i.e., HOME
AUTOMATION. You can monitor your home as well as your unfit family member
and even control Your home appliances from anywhere, either you are at work or
holiday.
The main motive of this project is to provide an ease in household tasks and
introduce automation in homes.
On an average we spent 1-2hrs a day just switch on and off the electrical
appliances. We can save this time to do other productive tasks. Even in a survey it
is found that most of the time the electrical appliances stay on because the person
forgot to switch it off.
This project is just a start in the field of automation.

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Chapter 2

LITERATURE SURVEY

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LITERATURE SURVEY

What is Automation?
The use of machines instead of humans to perform any task is automation. We are
surrounded by automatic machines which makes our daily routine work easy and
efficient. Automation makes our every task easy and it also saves our time. Today
we have many automated machines like dishwashers in kitchen, ATM machines at
bank, Cloth Washing machines at home etc.

What is Home Automation?

Home automation is basically a process of completing every possible day-to-day
household activities with minimum human involvement. It means to control doors,
windows, curtains, TV, fans, AC, lights, computers, every possible thing with a
remote in your hand, your regular mobile phone, or your voice.

Why this Home Automation?

Till now we are using the traditional process of living in a home. This traditional
process is very slow and boaring even it also wastes our time. Think, what if we
can control everything at home with our voice or by giving commands to your
home vocally. Like if want to open a door then we just have to say “Open Door”.
After this our life become easier and time saving.

How Voice Home Automation will work?

The whole system will work on the principle of data communication and data type
conversion. When we give any vocal command, then an arrangement of some
electronic components and microphones receives that command and perform some
IOT processes and then give response to the objects connected to it according to
the voice commands we given to it.

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Voice Home Automation Application Features.

• It provides easy control of electronic and electrical components of
a house.
• It helps us to save electricity.
• It also saves our time that we waste in just switching our electrical
devices at home.
• One can take care of his house even he is far away from his house.
• Easy access to everything at home without any risk of electric
shock, physical injury or anything like this.
• Using webserver enables us to give a voice commands in different
forms.

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Chapter 3

PROBLEM STATEMENT

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

The conventional way of controlling a house is expressed through doing everything

at home manually. A person has to do everything by his physical involvements. If
he wants to turn on the light then he has to do this by physically pressing the light
switch on an electrical board. If a person has to open a door then he has to open the
door manually by pulling or pushing it. The whole traditional process of
controlling a house is very energy consuming and even sometimes if a person is ill
and alone at home then its very hard for him to survive.
In a survey it is found that we spent our average of 2-3hrs a day in switching
electrical devices and door open-close process of our home. A person can utilize
this time in other productive activities.
Some times if any electrical device is switched on in any part of home and then to
go there to switch it off for a person is energy consuming then it left ‘on’ which is
responsible for energy wasting. We can resolve all these small problems by Home
Automation.
Even there are possibilities of getting electric shocks while switching electrical
components on or off. We also sometimes forgot to close the door while we are
going somewhere out then we run to the home but by Home Automation we can
monitor our home and even control our home from anywhere.
Adding some more stuff like auto-cleaner, automated coffee machine and much
more can make our daily household work easier.
Now time has come to change this old, exhausting and unsecure method of
controlling home. Now it’s time to introduce digitalization in this field. Only
digitalization isn’t enough, making it more user friendly is also an important thing
in this project.

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Chapter 4

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
SPECIFICATION

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION

4.1. Software Requirements.

• Android Mobile Phone with android version 5.1 or higher.
• Active internet connection.

4.2. Hardware Requirements.

• Wi-Fi router long range.
• Node-MCU Arduino board.
• Logic Input Relay Board.
• Female Base jumpers for Node-MCU.
• 5-volt AC to DC adapter.
• Electrical MCB (Amperes as per requirement).

4.3. Tools Requirements.

• Laptop with at least core I3 and 4 GB of RAM.
• Soldering Board.
• Soldering Kit (Soldering wax, wire, Soldering Iron).
• Mono-core Wire.
• Screw Drivers.
• Custom 3D printed plastic box for casing.
• Android Studio (Application).
• Arduino IDE (Application).
• EASY EDA (Application).

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4.4. Requirements Descriptions.

Android Mobile Phone: As the whole system will be flexible and modifiable so it
needs a Digital user interface for its modification and improvements. So, we will
provide an android app which will be designed to control and make changes to the
control station.
Active Internet Connection: When we give the voice commands to the voice
receiver it will sends it to a web server named as IFTTT which will decode the
voice commands to its binary result and then sends it back. This whole process
needs an active and mid-speed internet connection.
Wi-Fi Router Long Range: To stablish a constant connection between Voice
receiver, Internet & Node-MCU we will need a Wi-Fi router which will act as a
platform for connection of all the modules with each other.
NODE-MCU: It is an ESP-8266 programmable prototyping board which receives
binary signals over Wi-Fi and then enables the output pins as per programmed.
Logic Input Relay Board: It is Relay array board with and integrated chip which
enables the relay as per the logic inputs (0&1) given to it. Relay is a mechanical
switch which activates on low power of 5v and connects a high-power device to its
source.
5volts AC to DC adapter: It is an adapter which converts 220volts AC to 5volts
DC. It will be used to power the whole system.
Electrical MCB: MCB stands for Miniature Circuit Breaker. It is used to break the
circuit in the case of short-circuit or any other electrical failure.

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Chapter 5

SYSTEM DESIGN

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SYSTEM DESIGN

5.1. System Design Theory.

When we give a voice command to the voice receiver, it detects the voice
command and then converts it into binary numbers. After conversion it will the
web server IFTTT for the action for the given voice command. As we set the
results of statements in the web server. It replies back to the voice receiver with
same results. When the vice receiver gets to know the action to take against the
voice it sends the binary signal the node MCU over Wi-Fi which further enables
the output pins as per programmed. The output pins will be connected to the logic
input pins of relay board so as per the output of Node-MCU the relays get
switched. Switching of relay will cause the ON-OFF of the electrical appliances
connected to it.

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DECLARATIONS
• Advancement of this project may lead to additional
requirements.
• This project is not an INVENTION but it is actually an
INOVATION.
• Cost of this project may fluctuate as the market value.
• As this is a PRE-PROJECT report, so the detailed POST-
PROJECT report will be submitted after the completion of
project.

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Signature of Guided Signature of Team
Teacher. Leader.

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