MEI POLYTECHNIC

RAJAJINAGAR, BANGALORE – 560 010

(Recognized by DTE, GOVT of Karnataka& Approved by AICTE,

Report on Industrial visit

POWER ENGINEERING
Academic year 2024-2025

Date : 15-03-2025
Visited to : Seminar on IOT based Home Automation.
Visited by : 5th Sem Students

Name : RAKESH

Register No : 207EE22013
 Under the guidance of:

Mr. NAGARAJ S

HOD, EEE Department MEI Polytechnic

Here's a breakdown of key aspects and potential applications:

Core Concepts:

 Connectivity: IoT devices (sensors, actuators, and appliances) are networked, allowing for remote
control and monitoring.
 Automation: Pre-programmed actions can be triggered based on conditions (e.g., turning lights on
at sunset, adjusting temperature based on occupancy).
 Remote Control: Users can manage their home environment from anywhere using smartphones,
tablets, or computers.
 Energy Efficiency: Smart systems can optimize energy consumption by automating lights,
appliances, and heating/cooling systems.
 Enhanced Security: IoT devices can be integrated with security systems, providing alerts and
remote access control.
 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 t h r ou gh i nt e gr at ed
control of scheduled common lifestyle 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,
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.

Common Applications:

Lighting Control: Adjust brightness, colour temperature, and schedule lights to turn on/off automatically.

Temperature Control: Manage thermostats, air conditioners, and heaters for optimal comfort and energy
efficiency.

Appliance Control: Turn appliances on/off, monitor energy usage, and automate tasks like setting the oven
timer.

Security Systems: Integrate with cameras, sensors, and alarms for enhanced home security.

Smart Entertainment: Control music, TV, and other entertainment devices remotely.

Smart Irrigation: Automate garden watering based on weather conditions and soil moisture.
Examples of IoT Devices Used in Home Automation:

Sensors: Temperature, humidity, motion, light, smoke, gas detectors.

Actuators: Relays, smart plugs, motorized valves, and smart speakers.

Microcontrollers: Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi.

Cloud Platforms: Blynk, Thingspeak, AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT.

Benefits of IoT Home Automation:

 Convenience: Control your home from anywhere.

This project is developed to make a smart home automation system using microcontroller, Bluetooth
module. Their main requirements were: 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.