TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (KYAUKSE)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Design and Construction of Smart Home Control and

Monitoring System using Bluetooth Technology and
Android Mobile Phone

Ma Xyz
BE.EC 1

Supervisor:

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Date of Submission:
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS i
Introduction 1
Objective 2
Significance of the project 3
Scope of the project 4
Literature Review 5
Methodology 6
Expected Outcome 7
Limitation 8
Time Frame and Work Schedule 9
Budgets 10

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 Introduction
A smart home is called "intelligent", because its controller systems can
monitor many aspects of daily life. The concept of the smart home is a
promising and cost-effective way of improving home care for the elderly and
the disabled in a non-obtrusive way, allowing greater independence, maintaining
good health and preventing social isolation. Smart home consists of home
appliances, sensors, actuators and data processors and analyzers. Home
automation of appliances can be either wired or wireless.
In this project, model of smart home will be based on Arduino Board and
Android device is suggested. Mobile application will be developed in order to
manage smart home behavior. The main contribution of this project is that it
presents easy to implement, flexible and scalable solution for making a smart
home environment. Smart home system in this project will be based on mobile
device, because of constant growth of smartphones and tablets usage.

Objectives
This object is considered to
 Improve Inhabitant experience,
 Optimize inhabitant productivity,
 Minimize operating costs,
 Improve comfort,
 Simplify use of technologies,
 Ensure security and
 Enhance accessibility.

Significance of the project

This project is based on Bluetooth technology to control home
appliances. Emerging with the usages of Android operating system, mobile
application design for home appliance control becomes the big challenges for
electronics students. Not only to develop android application but also to design
electronics drive, microcontroller is needed to be programmed for controlling
power electronic devices and power load.
This project can support our community for safety purpose such as
preventing high current from power line to user, reducing accidental electric
shock, monitoring real-time temperature, humidity data of home system on
smart phone etc. This project is a combination of hardware design and software
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implementation. So it can help the electronic and information students except
the consumer.

Scope of the project

The project covers the following appliances:
1. Sensor, Appliance and mobile phone relation
Depending on the desired value from smart phone and actual temperature,
humidity sensors values of environment, home appliance will be controlled.
2. High power appliance driver
For controlling high voltage heating bulb, lighting bulb and cooling fans, relay
drivers will be designed to suitable with low voltage Arduino controller. It can
be expanded using two modes that are automatic mode without controlling from
smart phone and manual control via smart phone.
3. Security Issue
For open access for door control, Android smart phone based Bluetooth
technology will play for door motor control. Prototype based DC motor control
and magnetic or contact switch will be involved in this section.
4. Motoring System
Although the heating and cooling process take automatically using sensing data,
all information related with sensors and drivers are needed to be monitoring on
Android smart phone.

Literature Review
Smart home is defined as a home that has programmable electronic
controls and sensors that regulate heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and
appliance and equipment operation in a way that responds to interior climate
conditions in order to conserve energy.
Main elements of smart home may be
1. Internal network – wire, cable, wireless.
2. Intelligent control – gateway to manage the systems.
3. Home automation – products within the homes and links to services
and systems outside the home.
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 The range of different smart home technologies available is expanding
rapidly along with developments in computer controls and sensors. Smart
homes present exciting opportunities to change the way we live and work, and
to reduce energy consumption at the same time. There are already various
implementations of smart homes. Most of the implementations use wireless
technologies for communication between home appliances and main unit. The
main problem that people are trying to solve in smart home is how to make a
home that will help people to automate regular daily activities. For example,
like adjusting home temperature, ensuring that home has enough daily light and
make home secure. Lead with this idea, people developed smart homes based on
different technologies:
1) Smart home based on custom microcontroller and mobile application.
Smart home system is using Bluetooth for communication between mobile
application and system. It depends on the controller that it is using. Some
microcontrollers are used more than others, which makes those smart home
systems more flexible.
2) Smart home based on a custom microcontroller and computer. Smart
home system is using Bluetooth for communication between appliances. It is
based on a computer as entry point for communication between user and smart
home system. Computer is connected using wire to the microcontroller.
3) Smart home based on Arduino and mobile application. Smart home
system is using Bluetooth for communication between mobile application and
Arduino. This system is flexible and scalable. Limitation of this system is
Bluetooth range.
4) Smart home based on a computer. Smart home system is using Wi-Fi
for communication between appliances and main computer. Main computer is
communicating with appliances through microcontroller. Main advantage of this
system is that unlimited number of appliances can be connected to it.
This project will be design for monitoring and analyzing a smart home
sensor and driver condition. These values can be read on Android mobile device
and via Bluetooth technology. All sensors are connected directly to the Arduino
and collecting all information from sensors and is sending that information to
the android smart phone. That means that the values on smart phone screen will
show real time stats, which are collected on the sensors. User is able to monitor
different factors read in the system, like: temperature, humidity and door
conditions. This gives user a clear picture, how are the conditions in the smart
home. If user is not within Bluetooth range, arduino will record last know desire
temperature range and it will automatically maintain room weather.
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 Methodology
This project presents the model of smart home system based on Arduino
controller board and Android device. It includes sensors for heating and cooling
system and door open and close access are controlled via Android device.

Fig. Model of Smart Home Control and Monitoring System

There are three main parts of the system as shown on Fig. 1:

1. Android smart phone for controlling and monitoring
2. Sensors for environmental data and door condition
3. Motor drive for door, heating and cooling effects
Bluetooth technology is considered to be more practical inside smart
home system than other technologies for a few reasons. The main advantage is
that it tends to be cheaper since it's widely used for quite some time. Bluetooth
use lower energy in comparison to Wi-Fi.
The home automations system starts with temperature and humidity
sensor. By using these values, the system will consider about the temperature
setting by user smart phone and it will drive appropriate actuator that may be
heater or cooler or none of both.
Door security system includes various types of limiting switches. They
can sense things like window and door contact. After getting open access from
smart phone, they will be used for opening process. Some delay timer will be

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performed for entering into house and the door will close soon using appropriate
switches.
All ranges of sensing data and load condition will be displayed on phone
screen too.

Expected Outcome
This system is intended to allow following features to the end users:
1. Users can monitor and open door using sensor values that are read via
sensors. Arduino is collecting values that are read on the sensors. These values
are sent to the mobile phone. If mobile device is within Bluetooth range from
the Arduino, Bluetooth is used for communication between smart phone and
Arduino. If mobile device is not within Bluetooth range, Arduino will operate
itself automatically using EEPROM data which is stored while Bluetooth
connection was available.
2. Users can send commands to the Arduino while Bluetooth connection is
good. Users can communicate to the home appliances and other actuators via
Android application. Users are allowed to completely control smart home
system only using mobile device.

Main advantages of proposed system, compared to other systems are

 Appliance control whole smart home using simple remote device. This is
especially useful for homes, which is hard to check when the home is large.
 Weather control for smart home to maintain desired temperature and
humidity range
 Monitoring real-time sensing data and output status

Limitation
In this project, the study on longer range sensor than Bluetooth will not
be included. The communication using Bluetooth will only be emphasized here.
Although the whole process will be operated using electronics, it is hard
to represent using a house. So the prototype system will be used to demonstrate
the whole process.

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 Budgets
Type Name Cost (Kyats)
Controller Arduino Mega 15,000
Temperature and DHT 11 3,000
Humidity Sensor
Bluetooth module HC-06 8,000
Driver Circuit Relay 5,000
Driver Circuit H-bridge driver 6,000
Switches Limited switches 4,000
Cooling Fan AC fan 3,000
Heating Bulb 300 W AC bulb 1,000
Prototype Model Acrylic Material 20,000
Total 65,000