Abstract

Home Automation model using the android application is designed for providing ease of control of home appliances to the people, especially elderly or those who are physically unable for efficiently performing the day-to-day activities. As technology is raising more advancements are made in making the life of these people easier by providing methods easy to monitor and manage. The previous methods have seen the use of accelerometers, which are fixed on the hand as they are considered to be the best tool for carrying out such practices. These models are accurate but not flexible and portable. Our system is based on remote control home automation where-in our remote is an android application. In our system, the Smartphone camera is used to give gestures as input to the gesture recognition model to filter and predict the gesture. Web-based automation communicates directly with raspberry pi to control home appliances. The proposed method, allows users to flexibly and portably control multiple household appliances with simple gestures. Our system aims at tackling the problem of manual labour associated with existing smart homeautomation systems by performing pre-defined, automated functions using intelligent sensors that are managed by a highly costeffective and efficient Raspberry Pi. This system brings scalability, security and most importantly, ease-of-access to the smart home automation process by adopting a user-friendly Android app.Keywords: Raspberry pi, hand gestures, web server, gas and fire sensor.