Abstract

Home automation is an integral part of modern life that helps to monitoring and controls the home electrical devicesas well as other aspects of the digital home that is expected to be the standard for the future home. Home appliancecontrol system enables the house owner to control devices such as stove, refrigerator, air-conditioner, and lightingsremotely or monitoring the house status. Monitoring and control may be done by a personal digital device such as alaptop, PDA, telephone, or even a cell phone. One of the technologies well used by domestics to connect the homecontroller with the appliances is using the Power-Line Communication (PLC) protocol for data transmission. Inthis paper two types of home appliances PLC controller will be implemented based on the HomePlug Command andControl (HPCC) standard.Keywords: PLC, Embedded System, Home Network