Design and Development of Low Cost IR based Home Automation System

Home Automation is an emerging concept in which by using a single device, control of home like switching on and off appliances, monitoring temperature, fire alarms, garage doors etc. is performed. In this research, a remote control is used to control several appliances, thus achieving a simple low cost home automation system. IR remote enables remote control of apparatus like TV, Air Conditioning, Washing machine, light, fan, etc. The main feature of a remote control is that it is specific to a device. For example, an IR remote control unit can only be used for that corresponding TV, However in this project, a single IR remote is used to control several devices at home. This is achived by integrating all the devices to be controlled at home with a Arduino and IR based remote. The simulations and the results indicates promising results to automate the control of home using simple IR based remote with low cost.