Abstract:
Increment of energy consumption and population growth create a grave need
to conserve energy in all possible way. As a result, home automation is becoming
popular due io numerous benefits. Home automation refers to control the
ho.ne appliances and domestic features by local networking or remote control.
The current commercial home automation systems are general and does not
consist of a specific design for the Sri Lankan context. Therefore, we designed a
smart home automation system by keeping the Sri Lankan electricity tariff and
practices in mind. This project involved the design and construction of an indirid.
r"l control home appliance using Raspberry pi 3, Arduino and Windows
i0IoT core. This system can perform the basic home automation functions by
using numerous sensors, particularly the project offers Windows application
for operating several devices from single device remotely where users can control
lights, temperature of heaters, speed of fan, and switches from one place'
In case of lights, system will turn on the lights if motion sensor is active and
natural lighiis below the required densiry Similarly, fan speed is automatically
controlled on the basis of room temperature. It gives suggestions and how the
electricity tariffsystem works for the users and how the user can optimize their
power consumption. The system mainly consists of the control of the home appli"
rr."t, reduce energy consumption and provide awareness. Using the system,
the public can obtain piece of knowledge regarding Sri Lankan tariffsystem.
