THINKING DIFFERENTLY: ZIG-BEE BASED SMART HOME AUTOMATION

Hemant Pant, Jyoti Thakur, Anil Kumar, H.P.S Kang

Abstract: The technology for Home Automation is present for many decades, but still very few people have actually automated their homes. It was thought that the biggest barriers are their cost and incompatibility with other manufacturers. To solve both of these problems Zig-bee protocol was established. Zig-bee chips are cheap and with the formation of the Zig-bee alliance incompatibility is not an issue. But still the Home Automation (HA) is not as common as what was expected. This paper addresses the issues which must be considered to make this technology as common as cell-phones. Based on the opinions given in this paper hardware has also been implemented.

Keywords: Home-Automation, Zig-bee, 802.15.4, IR-motion sensor, LM-35 temperature sensor.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0309016