A Consumer-Based Smart Home with Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, home automation has become a popular trend and the demand for smart homes is rising with consumers being increasingly aware of the new technologies developed in the field of automation. While designing a home automation system, the parameters such as cost, compactness, energy efficiency, reliability, real-time implementation, and appliance scheduling play prime importance. With increasing pollution, respiratory diseases are on the rise and there is a strong need to develop a smart home system which is capable of monitoring healthy environmental conditions for its users. This research study proposes a smart system that uses a renewable source of energy, monitors and controls the overall power consumption of the home, and keeps a check on the healthy environmental conditions by measuring the level of oxygen thereby alarming when it falls below the safe limit. This research paper provides analysis of indoor air quality and health system. In addition, it measures indoor air quality using two factors: health and comfort. The proposed model is compact, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and provides a health-smart home system to the consumer.

KEYWORDS:

• Health and safety
• home automation
• SCADA interfaces
• sensors
• smart homes

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Notes on contributors

Kailas Patil

Kailas Patil is an alumnus of National University of Singapore, currently working at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. His research interests include Cyber Security, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things and Embedded Systems. He has been a reviewer of many international journals.

Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

Meena Laad

Meena Laad is the Associate Professor in Physics at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, India. Her research interests include synthesizing novel, low cost and high performance materials for industrial applications.

E-mail: [email protected]

Aakash Kamble

Aakash Kamble is a Computer Engineer graduate, currently working with Accenture Solutions Ltd., Pune, India. His research interests include Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Power Electronics and PLC.

E-mail: [email protected]

Shivani Laad

Shivani Laad is a final year Master's student in Computer Engineering, currently studying at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA. Her research interests include Data Analysis, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things and Smart Systems.

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