GSM based Home Appliances Control through Android

Abstract
This project is mainly designed to make Home Appliances easy to control the devices when a user is not at home. The project is also designed to allow easy use of a mobile phone to control appliances in the home. Using a mobile phone the development of the control system will be interfaced using an application which will communicate with GSM Modem, which in turn controls the devices attached to microcontroller modules. When the action has been carried out then a response or reply will be sent to the user. This system provides ideal solution to the problems faced by the users in daily life. Since the system is wireless it is more adaptable and cost effective and reduces the Electricity bill. It provides comprehensive energy management and sophisticated lighting control to both homes and small commercial buildings. It also lets you automatically schedule your heating and air conditioning settings based upon the day of the week and time of day.

Introduction

The aim of the project is to investigate a cost effective solution that will provide controlling of home appliances remotely. The microcontroller will control the devices based on the information given to it. The proposed solution should be easy to use, simple secure and be useful on most of the android based mobile phones. There are multiple interface options to control your home from either inside or outside the home, which allows you to check and adjust lights, temperature, security, audio, and more.

The report consists of a background into the area of microcontroller and mobile communication, how they are interfaced to each other and commands set used in communication and an application built for mobile phone for controlling the devices through GSM.

HARDWARE USED
1. command supporting GSM Modem. 2. Microcontroller 3. GSM Phone 4. Relays 5. Voltage regulator

Software Used
1. Kiel uvision 2. Android SDK tools.

THEORY OF OPERATION
In this project we interface a microcontroller with GSM modem to decode the received message and do the required action. The communication is achieved using command. The microcontroller pulls the instruction received by the phone which is then decoded and it recognizes the Mobile Number and then switches on the relays attached to its port to control the appliances. After the Successful operation

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Flow of the System:

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Advantages:

Accessibility: Instructions can to sent to the Microcontroller to be controlled from any location provided there is an existence of GSM Network Portability: Microcontroller can be controlled and monitored from any GSM phone that supports SMS. Cheaper: GSM services are generally cheaper hence it reduces the amount. Acknowledgement about execution of the command from the system to the user. To ease implementation and cost effective approach.

Conclusion: The remote control for home appliances is beneficial for the human generation, because mobile is most recently used technology nowadays. The SMS based remote control for home appliances is easy to implement the system that ON/OFF the electrical device through remotely via SMS or it handled more and more electrical devices which are use in home. In simple automation system where the internet facilities and even PC are not provided, one can use mobile phone based control system which is simple and costeffective.