Automation of Commercial & Residential buildings using IoT

Abstract

Power consumption of electrical appliances when not utilized is a serious issue in all organizations and institutions. Most of the organizations have manual control to operate and monitor the electrical appliances. By this practice, the electrical appliances like lights, fans, computers, etc are left ON when they are not in use in office rooms and even in restrooms. This led to unnecessary power consumption which can be utilized properly if avoided. In this paper, automatic control and monitoring of electrical appliances is done with the use of IoT. For implementing the concept, RFID tags, IR sensors, solenoid locks are utilized for sensing and automating the door lock system. A mobile application is developed to ease the entire process.

Keywords: IoT, Wi-Fi, RFID, Sensors, Automation, smart room.