Implementation of Home Automation Using Voice Commands

Abstract

Home automation is the mechanism of controlling household appliances automatically using various control system techniques. Nowadays, humans have become much dependent on electronic appliances and technology related to it. This paper gives a proposal to control home appliances using voice commands. We plan to implement an IOT-based system to automate light and fan operations using speech. A model that comes up with smart automation using Google Assistant serves this purpose. The user issues the voice command to the Google Assistant which gets interpreted and based on that the proposed system instructs the relay to switch on/off the home appliance. Adafruit and IFTT application recognize voice commands and instruct the power relay for the appliances accordingly through ESP8266 Wi-Fi. The communication between the appliances and microcontroller is established via Wi-Fi and Adafruit library; whereas, IFTT is used to control and monitor the status of devices.