Android smart home for the disabled

Abstract

The final year project is about Android Smart Home for The Disabled. This project is designed to provide a comfortable situation for disabled, for controlling their home appliances by using a remote control device in 20m radius. It used Bluetooth as wireless communication medium to operate the system and a smartphone as a remote control device. It is divided into two main sections which are parent and child node. The parent node consists of Arduino UNO board and Bluetooth module HC-05. Meanwhile, the child node is designed to connect the Arduino UNO board with home appliances. In this project, the lamp and fan as the home appliances. The system will operate when the Bluetooth transmitter which is designed in smartphone sent a signal to the Bluetooth receiver in parent node. After it received the signal, Arduino UNO will analyze the command from the smartphone and it will activate the home appliances. An Android application which is named “MyHome App” is created to provide a graphical user interface to make easier for users to use the system. User need to Login the application and select the mode either “ON” or “OFF”. Then, the appliances will operate according to the selecting mode. Besides, the advantage of “MyHome App” is user can monitor all status of home appliances by referring the ON/OFF button in the application where the red button indicates the current mode of the appliances.