The design of wireless remote intelligent home system based on Zigbee and GPRS

Intelligent home is an important application of wireless sensor network. This paper introduces a remote wireless acquisition and control system based on Zigbee and GPRS. The system is a star network and includes environment monitoring sensors, intelligent appliances, terminal acquisition and control nodes, family gateway and data display platform. This system is low cost, low power consumption, more flexible to deploy and the coverage is very large. The whole system not only can acquisition the environmental data and display them, but also can remotely query and control, the experiment show a good remote alarm and control ability. The control system includes manually control mode and automatically control mode. This paper introduces the composition and structure of the system, design of hardware and software are also described. In the design process, the energy efficiency has been focused on.