The Development of a System to Control Electrical Appliances through Bluetooth-Enabled Device

The objective of this study is to develop a system and an application that helps to
remotely control electrical appliances in the home domain with the usage of shortrange
wireless Bluetooth using Java programming technology. Basically this project
will solve and expand the Infrared technology remote control used, that is only
limited to straight line positioning device and to solve the inefficient storage and
amount of remote controllers held in each house domain. A proposed solution can be
apprehended especially for the elderly and the disabled to control their electrical
appliances. As for the development, the system will use Bluetooth-enabled mobile
phone that will only control the switched-electrical appliance in a single room and a
single appliance for presentation purposes using point-to-point Bluetooth topology.
The detected Bluetooth radius will only be 10 meters from the server location based
on the Bluetooth dongle attached to the server. In realizing this project, tasks have
been divided into six parts; problem definition, project analysis and review, outline
design, prototype development, prototype evaluation and system integration. The
design and implementation of this project is embraced from circuit implementation,
mobile and server development. In order to have full understanding of the project,
two main areas need to be covered first, which are the mobile remote controlling and
the Bluetooth technology. This is necessary in order to develop a good concept of
design and implementation into the real world. As a conclusion, the end product
should be able to provide freedom and flexibility of universal remote control system
by using Bluetooth-enabled devices that can be obtained in homes or even work
places.