2017 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCQ)

Intelligent Home Automation System using BitVoicer

Ishan Krishna K. Lavanya

School of Computer Science and Engineering School of Computer Science and Engineering
VIT University VIT University
Vellore, India Vellore, India
E-mail: ishan.nov@gmai1.com E-mail: lavanya.k@vit.ac.in

Abstract: Home Automation Systems (HAS) have gained 2) Limited association of clients in the innovation in the
world-wide popularity these days. It guarantees security, outline procedure.
surveillance and solace to the user and make their life more
comfortable. In developed countries, many households have 3) Perspective retained by item originators which was that
smart home automation systems which detect their household innovation was humdrum.
surroundings and act on the data to trigger home appliances
such as fan, air conditioners etc. But these systems are not 4) Continuous spotlight on solitary apparatuses m
very popular in developing nations as compared to configuration of contemporary innovation.
developed nations because of their pricing. Also, almost all
of these systems are hard coded so they just make some For showcasing and specialized purposes, those four
decisions based on iterative conditions. The system has variables specified above have ended up becoming home
neither user defined nor conditional control. There comes industry'S chance and challenge these days.
the need of Voice Controlled Home Automation Systems
(VCHAS). The proposed ZigBee based home
Home automation is not another industry any longer, but
automation system and Wi-Fi network are unified
rather it is a soaring industry in many of the developing
through a mutual home gateway. The combinatory
nations [8]. Tremendous promise of business sector leads
offers network interoperability, a simple and supple
numerous hardware partnerships towards home
user interface, and distant access to the system.
automation. Apple and Sony organizations are attempting
to claim a business sector based on home automation. Yet,
Keywords: Home Automation System, LDR, DHT sensor, the scale of home automation as an industry hasn't shaped
Arduino, ethernet shield. till now. There are additionally no common industry
standards. The great and terrible combined items are in the
I INTRODUCTION business sector. When contrasted with mobile phone's
history, we can find that home automation has enormous
In technology driven phase, Home Automation potential later on. Indeed, a few years' prior, not many
Technology (HAT) is existing in day to day activities individuals possessed an advanced cell phone or a
from quite a while now. In many traditional cases, HAT Smartphone. Be that as it may, these days nearly
proved to be algorithmic based executers or maybe, it has everybody has a smart phone or has utilized an advanced
been a long drawn procedure. It is an orderly process mobile phone and lOS and Android framework is turning
which has been developing from numerous years. Every into the standard.
time a little change from the past form was noted. It was
around 70 years back that "wired homes" appeared. With the advent of new technology, people want more
Subsequently, home automation technology appeared in comfort in their lives. In this new era of automated things
1985. That improvement was path towards the current such as automatic cars, automatic dish washers, automatic
brilliant houses. A shrewd home is not which is pleasantly bots and so on, comes the need of automated homes where
architectured or which has extravagant dividers or which people have the luxury of doing things with least amount
is at a decent area or which has present day types of gear. of effort.
It is one which has the most intelligent innovation in it.
This makes the home savvy.

Prior, there were very few brilliant innovations.

Individuals used to depend more on manual work than
programmed work. Stanford University tried to think of Also, this system is also built to help the disabled people
some innovation in this field, however, they fizzled. They with walking disabilities or old people who do not have
finished up some vital explanation behind not succeeding energy to walk and switch off/on the home appliances.
in exploratory examination [1]. The basic motivation for building this product is to make
the lives of people more comfortable and easy. It will give
1) No inspiration to enhance residential work conditions.

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them a sense of security and also the comfort of stay at The Intelligent Home System Architecture (IHSA) which
place and controlling systems through voice commands. comprises of voice handling module, the sensors, the
microcontroller, the server and signal. The framework
functions as follows: Sensors would detect the
II LITERATURE SURVEY surroundings like temperature, warmth, weight and so
forth of different home machines. Simple to Digital
Speech Recognition Based Wireless Automation of converter will change over simple signs into advanced
Home Loads- E Homel31 signs for the PC so that it can translate those signals.
Microcontroller is utilized to arrange different activities
The framework comprises of the accompanying and to monitor the machines through the utilization of
fundamental segments (i) automatic speech recognition server. The order FAN ON would be coordinated with
system, (ii) control units, (iii) remote framework and (iv) SWITCH FAN ON or TURN FAN ON whatever
application and home apparatuses. Automatic speech identifies with exchanging the gadget Fan on. At that
recognition (ASR) component can be thought of as an point spoken word is profiled with relating activity in the
autonomous and computer-driven interpretation of talked Action mapping piece. Case in point, the charge FAN ON
language that licenses a PC to recognize the uttered words which is an activity will tum on the fan. The device will
captured from a receiver or phone and changes over it into be controlled by the microcontroller as indicated by the
composed writings. Primary components of an ASR are activity gave by the activity mapping square.
(1) an amplifier, (2) speech recognition software and (3) a
PC. Through speech recognition software, a computer can In most of the systems given above, even though home
catch the phrase that user says and convert it to text that is automation was being implemented yet very few systems
displayed on the monitor had voice controlled modules. The coding was much more
difficult and complex for the ones that had voice
controlled modules. Also, these systems are costly and
Low Cost Smart Home Automation via Microsoft made for upper class families and their homes.
Speech Recognition [5]
Visual Basic (VB) programming has been utilized as
III SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
checking and control segment in this project. This
framework begins first by introducing the accessible com The proposed system offers voice controlled home
ports that have been prepared. A drop down rundown in a automation using BitVoicer software that is compatible
combo box object shows the accessible com ports with Arduino, cheap and power effective. It allows
accessibility. The accessibility of the com ports rely upon controlling of devices using Voice based dynamic
the serial ports that have been associated with the commands which reduce algorithmic user interaction with
computer. For this anticipate, one of the com ports is system directly. This framework contains of three
utilized. As the execution begins, timer capacity protest principle segments: i) Intelligent environment disclosure
additionally began synchronously. Subsequently, since a sensor segment ii) Intelligent Home Server (IHS) segment
com port has been chosen, serial port would be unlocked iii) Voice based commands segment. These different
by tapping interface catch to guarantee the product & segments of the framework incorporate turning of any
equipment association. home apparatuses or gadgets such as tube lights, fans or
air conditioners etc., as well as controlling the room
brightness and the fan speed automatically. Let us see in
Voice Controlled Wireless Intelligent Home
detail about the components of these segments:
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The sensor node collects the
room data and sends to the
sink.
The sink collects the data from various sensor
nodes and sends theaggregated data to the
server forprocessing.

Web server sends the

decision backto the
sink to activate the
Stores the standard
corresponding
DATABASE
room conditions.
actuators.

Figure 1. Home Automation Framework

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Component I: Sensor Kit

This module consists of two sensors: Light The DHT11 is a basic, ultra low-cost digital
Dependent Resistor (LDR) sensor and Digital temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive
Humidity and Temperature (DHT) sensor. LDR humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure the
sensor checks the light intensity of the room. DHT surrounding air, and spits out a digital signal on the
sensor senses the environment and returns the value data pin (no analog input pins needed). It's fairly
of current temperature and humidity. simple to use, but requires careful timing to grab
data. The only real downside of this sensor is we can
Light Dependent Resistor sensor: only get new data from it once every 2 seconds, so
when using in library, sensor readings can be up to 2
seconds old.

Component II: Actuators, i.e., LEDs.

Actuators play an important role in this system as

they are the output formats which are activated
whenever a user gives any command. We have used
different LEDs for various devices such as fan, tube
lights and air conditioners. LEDs have been used
Figure. 2. LDR Sensor because they consume less power and Arduino being
a low powered device, can withstand only minimal
power for every component.
LDR consists of a high resistance semiconductor Component III: Server & Ethernet shield
which reacts to only light intensity. In the dark, a
LDR will show a high resistance which can be up to The Arduino ethernet shield allows an Arduino
several mega ohms (MO). In bright light, a LDR board to connect to the internet. It is based on
have very less resistance which can be equal be few the Wiznet W5100 ethernet chip. The Wiznet
hundred Ohms. If light incidence on a photo resistor W5100 provides a network (IP) stack capable of
exceeds a both TCP and UDP. It supports up to four
certain frequency, photons absorbed by the simultaneous socket connections. Arduino sends
semiconductor give bound electrons enough energy data to ethernet shield where it connects to server.
to jump into the conduction band. The resulting free The server (coded in PHP) then processes the data
electrons conduct electricity, thereby and sends command to Arduino via Ethernet shield.
lowering resistance. In this way, LDR sends less
sensitive response to Arduino microcontroller.
Digital Humidity and Temperature Sensor:

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4

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Fig. 4. Ethernet Shield
Figure. 3. DHT Sensor

The Arduino Ethernet shield allows an arduino board to

connect to the internet. It is based on the Wiznet
W5100ethernet chip (datasheet). The Wiznet W5100

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provides a network (IP) stack capable of both TCP and 1. MCU- Atmega 328
UDP. It supports up to four simultaneous socket
connections. The Ethernet shield connects to an Arduino 2. Input Voltage- 7V-12V
board using long wire-wrap headers which extend 3. Operating Voltage- 5V
through the shield.
4. CPU Speed-16MHz
Component IV: RF transmitter and Receiver 5. Analog inlout- 6/0

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An RF module (radio frequency module) is a small
electronic device that is used in transmitting and
receiving data wirelessly. In embedded systems, it is Figure. 6. Arduino Board
often used to transmit and receive data wirelessly. This
wireless communication may be accomplished through IV WORKING OF THE SYSTEM
radio frequency (RF) communication.
The proposed home automation system is an integrated
In proposed work the RF module is used to carry the system to facilitate elderly and disabled people with an
unique id of the particular lamp post, it also carries the easy to use that can be fully operated on voice
flag which gets high if the object stays in the particular commands. It is portable and constructed in a way that it
range for more than the given time. is easy to install, configure, run and maintain. It works in
two following modes:
Component V: BitVoicer
A. Automatic Mode
BitVoicer is a software by BitSophia Inc. It is a voice
controlling software which is compatible with Arduino. In the installed system when the user wants to function
Through BitVoicer, we can give commands to the automatically, first the voice command saying "keyboard
Arduino board and by interfacing Arduino with on" to be issued. Second, verification of components
BitVoicer, the functionality can be controlled. such as temperature and dampness (humidity) alongside
different elements performed for a remote observing
Component VI: Arduino framework using Wi-Fi (Fig. 7). These hubs send
The Uno is a microcontroller board in light of the information remotely to a central server, which gathers
ATmega328P. It has the following component types: the information, caches it and permits it to be examined
and showed as required.

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Figure. 7.1 keyword "on"-Automatic control of Figure. 8 I. "Autohome Fan" Command
electrical appliances.

The knowledge base here is an lOT (Internet of Things)

platform that tracks all the voice commands provided,
also it can be used online base to receive remote sensor
readings to store temperature and environment
information. Based on these values, the system triggers
the necessary actuators such as AC, Fan or tube light.

Figure. 82. Fan's LED (Red LED) on.

2. "Light" - This command will switch the current light

state(Figure. 9).

3. "AC"- This command will switch the current air

conditioner state.
Figure.7.2 LEDs have been switched on as shown. 4. "All off' - This command will switch off all electrical
They are LEDs of AC and light. devices (Figure lO).

Once the room conditions are favourable, the devices

which are not required are switched off. This way energy

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is conserved. The cycle will repeat itself after a few
minutes so that the user can get optimum comfort.

B. Manual Mode ........".-_ ..-

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If the user is not in need of automatic mode, he can switch
to manual mode by issuing the voice command
"Autohome". This command will stop the sensors and
now the control of the system lies in the hands of the user.
A user has 4 options now. He can give the following
commands to the system within 3 seconds of uttering the
term "Autohome". Figure. 9 "Autohome Light" command

1. "Fan"- This command will switch the current fan If the user wants to again switch to automatic mode, he
state(Figure 8). can again say the keyword "on" and the system will
switch to automatic mode.

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 V CONCLUSION

The proposed system is very useful for elderly and

physically disabled persons who are in need of a physical
assistance for daily needs. It eliminates the limitation of
wiring complications also the range of voice commands
can be extended by using wireless routers and lOT. On
the off chance the viable usefulness and the cost of home
automation decrease will enable compatibility with
future technologies for customized user support. It
implies that creation capacity as well as innovation level
Figure. 10. All off Command ought to enhance increasingly. In Future, the use of
Aurdino can enable the control via., centralized server
With the above results, we can say that the system is through smart mobile phones.
working properly and there is hardly any chance of any
error unless a system breakdown occurs. The system
might be a tad slow because of so many devices
connected to it but this problem can be solved by using a
high powered Arduino instead of the low powered one.
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