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Smart home automation – 7 use-case scenarios in an IoT (Internet of Things) world.

What is a smart home.

  It’s a fully connected household environment that provides its residents with an unprecedented level of control and comfort. The main purpose of smart home IOT devices is to simplify your home life, make it safer and more convenient.

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In 2021, the concept of smart home automation implies much more than just remote control and automation. IoT, along with emerging technologies like AI, has opened up possibilities in home automation. Today, a smart home lives to exceed consumers’ expectations. It learns about your habits, your favourite music, room temperature, wake up timings and determine consumption patterns. These insights help provide a personalized experience at your homes.  They can be easily controlled via a smartphone app, so we don’t have to worry about our home security even when we are not there. Let’s look at the most popular ways to use Smart home IoT technologies in your home and understand what the benefits look like.

Home Automation Application and Use cases 

Today, the most widely used smart home application is home lighting. Most people know of tunable lighting that can change between warm and bright with different colour hues that suit your mood & requirement. But let’s check a few other use case scenarios for smart lights.

Smart home automation devices can make the cooking process safer and convenient too. 

Safety and Security Systems

Safety sensors identify anything wrong at your home. They can notify home users of any overlooked like an appliance left on or any potential threats immediately and even trigger necessary action to prevent them. 

Smart home IoT technologies in the bathroom can help in power and energy savings with convenience. 

A smart home can be exceptionally beneficial for those plant lovers interested in growing vegetables, fruit, herbs, and indoor plants at home. 

Temperature Control

With temperature control automation, you can optimize your ACs to provide the best experience while being energy efficient. 

We can safely assume the doors of our future will not need keys. Digital locks are safe and can be set to initiate a sequence of other devices in your home. 

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The most significant advantage of eGlu smart home solutions is that the patented products are retro-fit, which means:

Without a doubt, home automation can significantly improve our quality of life and make our homes safer places. 

The cost could still be a barrier to entry for most Indian middle-class families. The wider adoption of the tech leading to economies of scale would reduce this barrier further. eGlu has devised affordable packages for the home user to onboard the smart home experience.

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CASE STUDY: ADVANCED HOME AUTOMATION

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Home automation is a topic which is gaining popularity day by day, because of large advantages. One can achieve home automation by simply connecting home appliance electrical devices to the internet. The implementation of home automation in this project employs two systems, IoT and speech that are voice controlled based home automation. Internet of Things (IoT) conceptualizes the idea of remotely connecting and monitoring real things through the Internet. When it comes to our house, this concept can be aptly incorporated to make it smarter, safer and automated. The first scheme uses GSM/GPRS technology for controlling the electrical appliances via Internet through a website. The second scheme uses Bluetooth technology for controlling of electrical appliances by voice control when we are at home via an Android app. The proposed system is implemented on Pic 16f877a microcontroller. In this project, the goal is to develop a home automation system that gives the user complete control over all remotely controllable aspects of his or her home. The automation system will have ability to be controlled from a central host PC, the internet, and also remotely accessed with smart phone. Home automation system gives accessibility, comfort, energy efficiency, security by providing control and monitoring of appliances, security surveillance.

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Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology which is covering everyday things from industrial machinery to consumer goods in order to exchange information and complete tasks while involved in other work. IoT based smart home automation system is a system that uses PCs, mobile phones or remote devices to control basic operations for home automatically from anyplace around the world using internet. The proposed intelligent home automation system differs from existing systems as it allows the user to operate the system from anywhere around the world by using internet connection along with intelligent nodes that can take decisions according to the environmental conditions. We implemented a home automation system using sensor nodes that are directly connected to Arduino microcontrollers. Microcontroller is programmed so that it can perform some basic operations on the basis of sensors data. e.g. fan is controlled on basis of temperature value and light is controlled on the basis of occurrence of motion in the room etc. Furthermore Arduino board is connected to the internet using Wi-Fi module. An extra feature this system provides is to monitor power consumption of different home appliances. The designed system provides the user remote control of numerous appliances locally as well as outside the home. This designed system is expandable, allowing multiple devices to be controlled. The objective of the proposed system is to provide a low cost and efficient solution for home automation system by using IoT. Results show that the proposed system is able to handle all controlling and monitoring of home.

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Home Automation Using the Internet of Things (IoT)

Read the tutorial blog on how to implement Home Automation using IoT. It covers the software, hardware, sensors, protocols, architecture, and platforms.

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Iot home automation: getting started, home automation sensors.

What really would compel someone to actually develop a product which is a complete IoT-based home automation system? Could it be the need to improve the safety of your home, could it be the desire to live a Jetson-like life that millennials always dreamt of.

It is difficult to say, often, it is even more difficult to visualize the technology that is required to build a home automation platform.

Due to the complexity introduced by software, hardware and networking ecosystems, it becomes extremely important to learn, understand and utilize the right home automation technology for your smart home product.

We hope to address some of the concerns with this article .

Home automation has three major parts:

Each of these parts is equally important in building a truly smart home experience for your customers. Having the right hardware enables the ability to develop your IoT prototype iteratively and respond to technology pivots with ease.

A protocol selected with the right testing and careful consideration helps your avoiding performance bottlenecks that otherwise would restrict the technology and device integration capabilities with sensors and IoT gateways.

Another important consideration is the firmware that resides in your hardware managing your data, managing data transfer, firmware OTA updates and performing other critical operations to make things talk.

Applications of home automation

Rebuilding consumer expectations, home automation has been projected to target wide array applications for the new digital consumer. Some of the areas where consumers can expect to see home automation led IoT-enabled connectivity are:

The list is still not exhaustive and will evolve over the time to accommodate new IoT use cases.

Now that you are familiar with home automation applications, let’s have a detailed look at what components are involved in building a typical home automation prototype.

Home automation components

We have talked about them before, but, let’s clearly separate them into components that would finally help you build a realistic model of what major components are involved in building a smart home. The major components can be broken into:

IoT sensors involved in home automation are in thousands, and there are hundreds of home automation gateways as well. Most of the firmware is either written in C, Python, Node.Js, or any other programming language.

The biggest players in IoT cloud can be divided into a platform as a service(PaaS) and infrastructure as a service(LaaS).

Major IoT platform as a service provider:

Characteristics of IoT platforms

Again these platforms are extremely divided over the IoT application and security-related features that they provide. A few of these platforms are open source.

Let’s have a look at what you should expect from a typical IoT platform:

Apart from what we mentioned above, more and more platform builders are open sourcing their libraries to developers. Take for example the Dallas temperature library for DS18B20 for Arduino was quickly ported because of open source development to a new version that helped developers to integrate DS18B20 with Linkit One . Understanding these things become crucial as IoT tends to evolve continuously and having an equally responsive platform makes it business safe to proceed.

Let’s now deeply evaluate each of these components, starting with IoT sensors

There are probably thousands of such sensors out there that can be a part of this list. Since this is an introduction towards smart home technology, we will keep it brief. We will break down IoT sensors for home automation by their sensing capabilities:

Temperature sensors

Air composition sensors

Depending upon what you need you may use one or many of these to build a truly smart home IoT product. Let’s have a look at some of the most commonly used home automation sensors.

The market is full of them, but the famous temperature sensors are DHT11/22, DS18B20, LM35 and MSP430 series from TI. MSP430 series is more accurate than the rest but at the same time is one of the most expensive for prototyping or initial product testing purposes. MSP430 tops all temperature sensors as the precision and battery consumption is minimum with them.

MSP430 tops all temperature sensors as the precision and battery consumption is minimum with them.

DHT11 has a very restricted temperature range and suffers from accuracy issues. DHT22, on the other hand, is a little bit more accurate but still, doesn’t make it as the preference.

DS18B20’s, on the other hand, are more accurate, as opposed to digital temperature sensors like DHT22 and 11, Dallas temperature sensors are analog and can be extremely accurate down to 0.5 degrees.

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Take note that often the temperatures that you directly sense from these sensors may not be very accurate and you would occasionally see 1000 F or greater values no matter what you are doing.

There’s an entire logic that goes around building temperature sensors, that we will address in another blog post.

Lux Sensors

Lux sensors measure the luminosity and can be used to trigger various functions range from cross-validating movements to turn the lights on if it becomes too dark. Some of the most popular light sensors are TSL2591 and BH1750.

Recent tests to include TSL2591 and BH1750 into low-powered IoT devices have found them to be working fairly good for most of the use cases.

Here’s a study was done by Robert and Tomas that shows how these two compare against a spectrometer and a photodiode.

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To get a good idea of whether these two sensors would suffice your needs we would suggest illuminance tests followed by normalization of the data to observe deviations under various situations.

Water level sensors for Home Automation

While building your prototype you may consider a solid state eTape liquid level sensor, or like others who just use an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor to measure the water level sensor.

On the other hand, in other cases where those two don’t suffice, one has to utilize something that can deliver a much higher performance.

Float level sensors and other ICs like LM1830 offers a more precise measurement capability to IoT developers. Although, they are substantially much more expensive than others.

There are a couple of specific sensors that are used by developers to measure specific components in the air:

Most of these are sensors have a heating time, which also means that they require a certain time before they actually start delivering accurate values.

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These sensors mainly rely on their surface to detect gas components. When they initially start sensing, there’s always something that’s there on their surface, some sort of deposition that requires some heating to go away.

Hence, after the surface gets heated enough true values start to show up.

Video cameras for surveillance and analytics

A range of webcams and cameras specific to Hardware development kits are usually used in such scenarios. Hardware with USB ports offers to integrate and camera module to build functionalities.

But, utilizing USB ports in not very efficient, especially in the case of real-time video transfer or any kind of video processing.

Take RaspberryPi for example, it comes with a camera module (Pi cam) that connects using a flex connector directly to the board without using the USB port. This makes the Pi cam extremely efficient.

Sound detection for Home Automation

Sound detection plays a vital role from monitoring babies to turning on and off lights automatically to automatically detecting your dog’s sound at the door and opening it up for them.

Some commonly used sensors for sound detection includes SEN-12462 and EasyVR Shield for rapid prototyping.

These sensors aren’t as good as industrial grade sensors like those from 3DSignals which can detect even ultra-low levels of noise and fine tune between various noise levels to build even machine break up patterns.

Humidity sensors for Home Automation

These sensors bring the capability of sensing humidity/RH levels in air for smart homes. The accuracy and sensing precision depends a lot on multiple factors including the overall sensor design and placement.

But certain sensors like DHT22 and 11 built for rapid prototyping would always perform poorly when compared to high-quality sensors like HIH6100 and Dig RH.

While building a product to sense humidity levels, ensure that there’s no localized layer of humidity that is obscuring the actual results. Also, keep into consideration that in certain small spaces, the humidity might be too high at one end as compared to the others.

When you look at free and open spaces where the air components can move much freely, the distribution around the sensor can be expected to be uniform and subsequently would require very less amount of corrective actions for the right calibration.

Home Automation Protocols

One of the most important parts of building a home automation product is to think about protocols, protocols that your device would use to communicate to gateways, servers, and sensors. A few years ago, the only way to do so was by either using Bluetooth, wifi or GSM. But due to added expenses on cellular sim cards, and low performance of Wifi, most such solutions didn’t work.

A few years ago, the only way to do so was by either using Bluetooth, wifi or GSM. But due to added expenses on cellular sim cards, and low performance of Wifi, most such solutions didn’t work.

Bluetooth survived and later evolved as Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth low energy. This helped bring a lot of connectivity in the “mobile server powered economy”, in this essentially your phone would act as a middleware to fetch data from BLE powered sensors and sent it over to the internet.

When looking at the major home automation protocols, the following tops the list:

Home Automation: Which protocol is the best?

While there are some protocols that clearly offer much more than others, but it is always important to start from your smart home development needs and then move towards narrowing down the solutions.

The commonly preferred protocols are Bluetooth low energy, Z-wave, Zigbee, and Thread. The protocol selection can now be narrowed down by the following factors:

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Home Automation Architecture

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This architecture supports the following considerations for home automation solutions:

Home Automation Gateways

For developing a home automation product, often stand-alone product sending data to a server is not enough. Often due to battery and protocol limitations, the data from a sensor or sensors present in a home has been routed through an IoT gateway.

To select the perfect gateway for your IoT home automation, consider some of the factors including:

When it comes to building IoT gateways, modularity and hybrid IoT protocol support top that list when a product is in the early stages of market introduction.

To incorporate a gateway in your home automation stack you can consider the following options:

Either create a Gateway from the ground up using existing hardware stacks for prototyping(using Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, etc). Then when a PoC is validated you can create your own custom hardware.

Or, you can use existing gateway modules like Ingincs BLE gateway . These gateways are extremely easy to customize and connect with your cloud services and devices. However, they may or may not offer the same level of support that you need to build certain features.

For example, a gateway with a bad networking queue may result in traffic congestion, or it may not support the required protocols that you wish to use.

Further, pivoting with these gateways to some other technology stack may become very difficult. It should have been emphasized that they are extremely good for robust prototyping needs.

Home automation programming language for smart home developers

The following programming languages dominated the home automation space: Python, Embedded C, C, Shell, Go, Javascript (node.js). This has mainly happened due to the sheer optimization of the languages for similar use cases.

Home Automation frameworks

If you think you can build everything from home automation (protocols, hardware, software, etc) on your own, it is a bit unrealistic. Everyone starting from high growth startups to billion dollar consumer focused enterprises are now taking the help of home automation frameworks to build connected products to delight consumers.

Everyone starting from high growth startups to billion dollar consumer focused enterprises are now taking the help of home automation frameworks to build connected products to delight consumers.

There are more than 15 different smart home frameworks available for IoT developers to use and build their next generation of connected home products. Some of these frameworks are open source and some are closed-source. Let’s have a look at some of them in the sections that follows.

Some of these frameworks are open source and some are closed-source. Let’s have a look at some of them in the sections that follows.

Open source IoT platforms and frameworks for Home Automation

Looking forward to doing a quick and dirty prototype? There’s no need to write down everything from scratch. Thanks to a bunch of awesome contributions by people like we have open source platforms that can get your home automation products up and running in no time.

Our favorites are:

Let’s take a look at the major home automation IoT platforms.

Home Assistant for smart home development:

Supports RaspberryPi, uses Python with OS as Hassbian. It has simplified automation rules that developers can use to build their home automation product saving them thousands of lines of code.

Home Assistant supports the following:

Home-assistant

How home assistant works involve the following:

As developers, it is very important for us to understand the architecture of Home Assistant for us to build high-performing products on top of it.

Let’s have a look at Home control’s architecture that makes control and information flow possible.

Home control consists of five components:

The core architecture of Home Assistant

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All of these components working together create a seamless asynchronous system for smart home IoT. In the earlier version of Home Assistant core, the core often had to stop while looking for new device information.

But, with the new versions of home assistant, a backward compatible API, and ansyn core have been introduced making things a lot faster for IoT applications.

The best part about home assistant’s core architecture is how carefully it has been designed and developed to support IoT at home.

OpenHAB for Smart home automation

OpenHAB is a home automation and IoT gateway framework for smart homes. Similar to Home Assistant, OpenHAB works nicely with Raspberry Pi and comes with their own design tools to create a UI for your home automation product.

An understanding architecture of OpenHAB:

Further relying on the OGSi framework, it leverages the following layers stacked together:

OpenHAB-architecture

OpenHAB features:

OpenHAB has been primarily only been observed as a project for the hobbyist programmer, even many parts of openhab.org convey the same. But, we have observed a different effort in the recent times from OpenHAB into building the developer economy for building IoT smart homes.

Takes this slowly growing Github repo talking about OpenHAB cloud for example.

OpenHAB-cloud-architecture

Impressive enough that some open platform out there is thinking about system services, Cron jobs, logging, etc.

Further, looking at the frameworks and technologies that openHAB will support: Node.Js, Express.Js, Nginx, MongoDB, Redis, Socket.IO

Unlike Home Assistant’s vast integrability, openHAB is currently limited to:

OpenHAB is extremely powerful, but at the same time very limited in terms of integration. The team behind openHAB is extremely promising and have already conveyed their plans to open up openHAB to other integration capabilities very shortly.

Calaos for Home Automation

Calaos was developed initially by a company that was closed back in 2013, but the home automation since then has lived and is being maintained and upgraded by developers. While now being open source, it facilitates premade source code to:

Calaos supports the following hardware:

Their lack of support towards developing private IoT applications restricts their usage by developers to build high-quality solutions for consumers.

Domoticz for Home Automation

Domoticz allows you to monitor and configure your devices and sensors with the simplest possible design. Impressive enough that the entire project is extremely lightweight, it further is backed by high integrability with third parties and features like auto learning switches.

This platform has been designed to work with operating systems like Linux and Windows.

Protocol capabilities of Domoticz include:  Z-wave, Bluetooth, Apple Homekit, X10 and MQTT

Hardware integration capabilities of Domoticz:

Domiticz can be used to create any sort of services that you can think of, ranging from a smart weather device to a Telegram bot.

Domoticz architecture

Currently, very few people know about the architecture of Domoticz, making it extremely difficult to build applications on it without taking unnecessary risks in building the product itself.

For example, the entire design of general architecture feels a little weird when you look at the concept of a sensor to control to an actuator. It seems to be missing.

Building advanced application with Domoticz can be done using C++, lula, PHP, shell, etc.

Blockchain in IoT for connected home

Consumers, especially those who grew up in the digital era understand the importance of privacy and security more than millennials. With the evolution of IoT, security has taken center stage for realistic deployment scenarios.

Deployment of Blockchain into home networks can easily be done with a $35 raspberry pi. A blockchain secured layer between devices and gateways can be implemented without massive revamp of the existing code base.

Blockchain

Simply put, blockchain as a technology that would be an implementation that most users won’t even know about, but will play a huge role in future to reassure them with revolutionary and new business models like dynamic renting for Airbnb.

So far, interoperability issues and broken protocols seemed to have hampered the growth of IoT-based smart homes.

But, as technology is progressing and more and more computing power can be generated with very low powered devices, home automation will gradually become a technology that will easy for us to build and develop for on a daily basis.

Home automation is a big space to address in one blog post. If there’s something else that you would like, feel free to drop a comment or reach out to me on Twitter – I am @hsshah_ .

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Hi Hardik, I am a starter in this space and your blog is really helpful. I’m not sure If this is the right forum, but If I want to create my own smart home. What in your opinion are the minimum tools I require? I already have the Raspberry Pi starter kit and I would love to integrate what you share with a raspberry pi touchscreen. Any advice would be great

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Swati Choudhary

Mar 21, 2018

IoT for smart home—a case study

IoT is the next step in the evolution of the internet and is being used in about everything you can think of. This project aimed to scope out use cases if LG were to start its own IoT wave for smart homes.

The Process

• 🖥 A new wave of connected appliances will enable better user experience, proactive alerts, and even safety notifications.

• 🚰 Water and air treatment systems at home, their performance data, customized alerts on each device's performance, automated consumable ordering, and even automatic adjusts to your water usage patterns.

• 🔥 Adding connectivity to fire safety devices can allow homeowners to monitor appliances remotely and even send alerts to friends and neighbors in the case of an emergency.

For the research part, I googled a lot and tried to understand and grab as much as I could about IoT and its potential users. 🧐

“User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.”— Don Norman

For personas, I interviewed various potential people at my workplace and at home.

User Persona 1:

Kushal Gupta, Age 27

Occupation: Product Manager, working for a mid-sized company.

Traits: Fearless, risk-taker, reader, and traveler.

• Kushal is single, a workaholic, and lives alone.

• He looks forward to minimum futile commute and avoids traffic jams.

• He likes industry culture; his favorite phrase is working hard and party harder.

• He likes to spend time with friends after the office.

• To increase networking with people.

• Follow the latest trends and technology

• To live a balanced work and social life.

• When I am on my way back home after the office , I want to switch on the AC with my smartphone , so that the room temperature is already stable before I enter the room.

• When I am using the washing machine on weekends, I want my washing machine to send me a prior notification on my phone about any damage(if at all), So that I can connect to the LG store for any assistance or get any handy tips to fix it on my own.

• When I forget to change the batteries of the fire alarm, I want a reminder on my phone, so that it can work in case of an emergency.

User Persona 2:

Nalini Maan, Age 34

Occupation: Currently a housewife, used to work with an MNC for more than 7 yrs.

Traits: Smart, trendy, party lover, and a fashionable mom

• Nalini lives with her husband and a mother of 11-month-old baby.

• She takes care of a home and her family.

• She also likes to hang out with women of her age group.

• Managing things on her own at home while also trying to maintain her social life.

• While doing household activities she is persistently bothered about her baby’s movements.

• When I am in the kitchen, I want to track the activities of my baby on my smartphone, So that I can get back to him if needed.

“Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information.”— Edward R Tufte

Low-fidelity wireframes :

Mood board:

Colour Palette:

“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability — they should go hand in hand.” ~ Don Norman

Applied methods and design Laws:

Complex reduction method by Michael Horton for ‘clean and minimal’ designs:

• Bigger, bolder headlines

• Simpler, more universal icons

• Extraction of color

Design Laws:

Fitt’s Law: Bold and easily accessible CTA’s

Hick’s Law: Aesthetically simplified steps for users.

Law of Prägnanz: Simple and basic shapes used for icons/illustrations to reduce the overall cognitive load.

Law of Similarity: Error messages and other useful information are consistently highlighted.

Miller’s Law: Well-organized information with grouping.

Pareto Principle: Information architecture is according to the priority of majorly performed tasks by the user.

Von Restorff Effect: Distinctive icons are used for clear indications of every room possible and for each appliance.

Icon courtesy Noun Project

In case you want to know all about ‘Laws of UX’ read them here.

Read all about IoT here.

There is always a lot to learn from every project, it’s challenging and fun.

• Do lots of research before getting started, understand who you are designing for, and plan and design according to that. Use existing data such as reading material on the web, books, and articles to support your design choices and the context of your design.

• Understand your user, which means putting yourself in another person’s shoes to create products that respond to human needs.

Keep pushing yourself to the limits. 🙂

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Also looking forward to your valuable feedback.

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