IMPLEMENTATION OF HOME AUTOMATION USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

Home automation offers convenience in enhancing the quality of life. Its specialty in having centralized control system with capability to solve complex problems in controlling and monitoring home environment and appliances draws the attention of the researchers and home industries to create home automation products with consideration of many aspects such as low cost home automation system, easy access system and etc. The implementation type of home automation system can be either wired or wireless. The wired types are power line and wired home automation while wireless home automation comes with different technologies. The technologies used in wireless home automation such as Wi-Fi, Infrared (IR), Bluetooth, Zigbee and Global System for Mobile communication (GSM). Each of these technologies offers advantages in term of flexibility and reliability but limited to their communication range.