Design of Home IoT System Based on Mobile Messaging Applications

Abstract

With the proliferation of smart devices and sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been rapidly emerged. The term of IoT generally refers to not only network connectivity of smart objects with computing capability but also applications based on the network connectivity. The smart objects generate, exchange and consume their data with only minimal human intervention. Smart Home is a service that connects various home appliances, such as refrigerators, televisions, air conditioners, and so on, in order to improve user experiences and provide combinational operations between them. In this paper, we introduce a design of Home IoT system based on mobile messaging applications with ChatBot, an artificial intelligence based agent to remotely control of home appliances and inquire their status through natural language messages. We propose the standard hierarchy of Home IoT system and demonstrate the proposed system by implementing Arduino based prototype systems.