A Comparative Analysis on Home Automation Techniques

Smart homes have emerged as an area of research interest in recent years. Home automation offers us independence and complete control over your home along with a fine designed intelligent architecture which could control your home in your absence in an efficient manner. In the recent years all the implemented techniques have not realized the Intelligent Home design in all quality aspects since every technique has its own pros and cons whether we talk in terms of technology adapted, efficiency or cost. This paper presents a brief comparative analysis on implemented techniques and provides a viable solution to realize home automation system which constitutes Bluetooth control via Android app development for in-house control and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) technology for mobile control using Arduino Development Board as brain of our system. To implement Intelligent Home, the need is to adapt simple, efficient and cost effective technologies and the solution presented in this paper constitutes the said features.