Home Automation and Energy Management using Android App

Abstract

This paper presents a project of low cost standalone home appliances control and monitoring system using microcontroller with real time GSM Module connectivity and appliances remotely controlled using Android based smart Phone App running on the Android platform. The main objective of home automation and energy management using Android app is to help uneducated, handicapped and old aged people. The Android mobile phone applications are more popular among software developers because of its open architecture. It is very good platform for real time interfacing, it offers a lot of features. In designing the app there is no need to write lengthy programming code. It provides a visual design interface as the way app looks as the block of interlocking components to control app behavior. The Android development kit has used to develop the app. Keywords-Microcontroller, Android development kit (ADK), GSM Module.