Development of android based hotel automation system

Abstract

Today we are living in 21st century where automation is playing important role in human life. Home automation allows us to control household appliances like light, door, fan, AC etc. It also provides home security and emergency system to be activated. Home automation not only refers to reduce human efforts but also energy efficiency and time saving. The main objective of home automation and security is to help handicapped and old aged people who will enable them to control home appliances and alert them in critical situations. This paper put forwards the design of home automation and security system using Android ADK. The design is based on a standalone embedded system board Android ADK(Accessory Development Kit) at home. Home appliances are connected to the ADK and communication is established between the ADK and Android mobile device or tablet. The home appliances are connected to the input/output ports of the embedded system board and their status is passed to the ADK. We would develop an authentication to the system for authorized person to access home appliances. The device with low cost and scalable to less modification to the core is much important. It presents the design and implementation of automation system that can monitor and control home appliances via android phone or tablet. This project titled “Development of Android based Hotel Automation System” enable us to develop hardware and software integrated system using android application for hotel automation, to wirelessly control electrical appliances using smart phone or tablet. It will provide power On/Off and status monitoring of the appliance. It will also provide control of an AC/TV like remotes on a single android device. We are able to achieve its core objectives using sensitive products like raspberry pi and Zigbee modules. The basic motivation behind the project is to provide user the control of the appliances and video surveillance wirelessly on the move. We will provide the user an attractive and user friendly android application which will be integrated with the hardware through Wi-Fi hotspot. We have used the latest available equipment. The research work we did helped us a lot in enhancing our knowledge and working skills. If we define the sequential layout of the project than it will go as our android device is connected to raspberry pie through Wi-Fi router and raspberry in turn is connected to Zigbee modules in a mesh network.