Home Automation using Augmented Reality (HAAR)

As the human life is heading towards busy schedule it becomes necessary to automate our home appliances. With the day to day technological advancement our expectation for higher living standards is increasing significantly. From higher living standards we mean usage of smart phones, smart watch, sma

Project Title

Home Automation using Augmented Reality (HAAR)

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

As the human life is heading towards busy schedule it becomes necessary to automate our home appliances. With the day to day technological advancement our expectation for higher living standards is increasing significantly. From higher living standards we mean usage of smart phones, smart watch, smart glasses smart TVs, highly upgraded laptops etc that ease human life. In this technologically developing era automation is the need of the hour. Home automation aims towards automating human lives. Controlling home appliances with our smart phones, smart glasses and smart watches without the actual usage of conventional switches is home automation. An automated home in simple terms is called a Smart home. Automation increases our work efficiency and comfort. These days most of us are found clinging to our smart phones and smart devices. Hence with the help of this smart device and after analyzing the smart device market we can actually automate our personal day to day tasks by personifying our smart phones. The inclusion of AR interface in automation is a major breakthrough as it has proved to be a prominent information visualization and interaction medium. A typical AR interface based implementation scheme would rely on a high-end server communicating with a mobile AR client. The client has to provide a large database containing the information of the potential target objects in the environment. Thus in this project we propose a model wherein Augmented reality proves to be a user friendly interface for home automation. Image processing in our model acts as the backbone of the whole system. The AR interface gives us an edge over other systems as it helps us to control machines and appliances in real time environment. Our proposed model is based on Raspberry pi and AR which uses the concept of image tracking and processing with backend server to control the appliances and machines.

Project Objectives

The main problem that home automation faces these days is High cost, inefficiency, not so user friendly interface and inflexibility. So In our project our main objectives are:

1. To build a home automation system that is able to control and automate most of our electrical appliances through easy and manageable web interface.
2. To build a system that has great flexibility
3. To build a system that use wifi technology  to communicate between smart device.

This technology reduces the cost automatically by decreasing the hardware and wired communication.

Project Implementation Method

The system works as follows:

As soon as the user points smart device towards the electrical equipment system will show a virtual pop-up switch which has two options (ON/OFF). If the system has multi input like brightness control or temperature control then system will give slider (for increment and decrement). The app then sends the input data to the system. Controller will sense the data and then take appropriate decision like turning on or off the relays, giving appropriate triggering to the Thyristor (for controlling the speed) and transmitting the RF signal with the help of RF transmitter. It also continuously measures the safety parameters like current and voltage and take the required steps. In our system we use raspberry pi. Which act as a host and the smart gadgets are linked with it via Wi-Fi or net connectivity.

Benefits of the Project

The system is mainly designed for specially challenged and elderly people. (User friendly interface).

 It is also helpful for the less educated cluster of people as the interface is very user friendly.

The technique can be used in our day to day life to control and monitor our electric power consumption as well as to avoid any hazardous situation.

Can be used in industrial maintenance and to aid patients in hospitals.

 Considering all aspects an ideal system should be available to the user from anywhere and in real time and our proposed model is the eligible candidate for the same.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Augmented reality (AR) is used to allow virtual pop ups when the camera of the cell phone is pointed towards the element ( lamps ,Air conditioners etc) the pop up enables us to turn on or off the supply by simple touch selection thus improving ways of automation .AR uses the concept of image tracking, processing and communicating to control the applications. The remote web control feature is used to enhance the operation of appliances over mobile devices. The control data is sent to the General Purpose Input Output Pins of microcontroller (GPIO) which triggers the household DC and AC appliances. The status can then be analyzed through the web browser or through mobile web interface and control them using internet. Voice control technique can also be implemented by using speech recognition so that the user can provide the controlling commands via voice. AR automation along with conventional system of remote controlling from anywhere will prove highly beneficial.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Core Technology

Augmented & Virtual Reality

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Quality Education

Required Resources

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