Controlling Home Appliances by using Universal Remote Control System (IoT and Bluetooth)

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Controlling Home Appliances by Using Universal Remote Control
System (IoT and Bluetooth)
K. NarendraReddy (M.Tech), P.SUKUMAR
K. NarendraReddy (M.Tech) , Embedded Systems, AITS, Rajampet, India
P.SUKUMAR, professor, ECE, AITS, Rajampet, India
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Abstract - The smart phone is one of the representative
fields of Internet of Things (IoT). The intelligent home system
creates the more comfortable, safer and intelligent living
environment. It can be resolve the problems facing by the
people who have spend less amount of time at home .For the
solution of this problem peoples can depends on the
automated machines and smart phones. In existing systems
users may be confused with the controller to simple
operations. These problems are overcome by communication
between remote controller and target devices. To design a
circuit for Internet of Things (IoT), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
technologies are used to controlling home appliances on ARM
board by using universal remote controller. The circuit is
designed with less complexity, security will be provided in the
controlling and with low power by taking advantage of the
concept of multiple data fusion technique.
Key Words: Remote control, IoT, smart home, user-
friendly UI, ARM Board, Android studio.
1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, therapiddevelopmentofInternetof
Things (IOT) makes the intelligent home as people expect.
The intelligent home system creates the more comfortable,
safer, humane and intelligent living environment. It can
resolve the problems facing by the people who have busy
schedules and get a very less amount of time to spend at
home. which is increasing rapidly around the world. For the
solution of this problem, user can depend on the automated
machines and gadgets like smart phones. The need for
comfort and a convenient life are especially important in
smart homes.
The goal of this paper is to design a circuit for Internet of
Things (IoT), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies are
controlling home appliances by using universal remote
controller using ARM board. The circuit isdesigned withless
complexity, security will be provided in the controlling and
with low power by taking advantage of the concept of
multiple data fusion technique. The data can be seen on
mobile phone through IoT, Wi-FiandBluetoothtechnologies
and develop an intelligent universal remote control system
for home appliances. A user interface for controlling this
device is immediately displayed on the screen of the
controller. UI’s, which enables users to simply enable and
control the target device among the complex functionalityof
home devices in a shared space for IoT based smart homes.
Now a days, the majority of devices and appliances
in smart homes are equipped with a remote controller,
which includes a number of buttons and wireless
transceivers. This setup provides higher operational
complexity around the space with numerous devices or
appliances. Thus, the idea of the universal remote controller
is introduced to integrate multiplefunctionsofhomedevices
or applications into one single remote controller.
Nevertheless, various functions and buttons ofa URCresults
in more complicated operations, the problems of intuition
and user-friendliness remain. Numerous solutions are
proposed to develop URCs with a Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD) screen, networking capability,andseveral techniques.
Built in with these techniques, the deviceorappliancecanbe
automatically detected via a network anda UIisdynamically
generated from descriptions and properties of the device or
appliance.
2. EXISTED SYSTEMS
Prototyping design of Electronic End Devices for
Smart home appliances is one of the existed system. In this
system end-devices prototyping design for supporting
several main electronic based applications which are
commonly found in a home. Motivation of this work is to
propose end –devices prototyping design which are (1) to
represent several main electronic functions in a common
Home, (2) Able to support our existing and efficient smart
home platform and (3) Able to provide smart functions on
existing appliances without any major changes and
modifications. Home appliances controlled byBluetooth and
Wi-Fi. Smart home switches to connect and disconnect by
using IOT are some other relative existed systems.
3. PROPOSED SYSTEMS
In this paper discussed different Home Automation
System with their technology with features, benefit and
limitations. In this my project, the Home automation system
that uses IoT, Wi-Fi,Bluetoothtechnology.Systemconsistsof
three main components; web server, which presentssystem
core that controls, and monitors users’ home and hardware
interface module, which provides appropriate interface to
sensors and actuator of home automation system. The

System is better from the scalability and flexibility point of
view than the commercially available home automation
systems. The User may use the same technology to login to
the server web based application.
Smart homes that have appliances lighting or any
electronic devices that can be controlled remotely by the
owner often via a mobile application. An android phone is a
smart phone running on Google’s open source android
operating systems.
A smart phone equipped with infrared (IR)
capabilities is easier to realize functions of PPRC. Otherwise
some IR USB dongles that can provide support for android
operation systems. And several open source universal plug
and play (UPnP) libraries are useful to help us to reduce the
development time. Finally, for implementation of the PPCB,
the design of the small and narrow hole is trick for the IR
mechanism. The comprehensive system architectureand its
primary components as shown below.
Fig 1: System architecture of the proposed system
3.1 System Architecture
The system architecture consists of two parts:1)the
Point-n-Press remote controller(PPRC) and 2) a number of
target devices, which embed in the Point-n-Press Control
Box(PPCB) for interfacing with the PPRC, as shown in Fig 1.
The functions of the components in the PPRC are
described as follows.
1. IG(Interface Generator)
2. DPR(Device Profile Registry)
3. URC controller
4. Android Platform
5. Communication Interfaces
Fig 2: Software stacks for the PPRC
IG stands for Interface Generator. The Interface
Generator creates a UI according to the properties and
descriptions of the target devices and its current state.
Device Profile Registry store the information of the current
target device, such as its current state and dependency
between each state. URC Control Responsible for receiving
DCPs from target devices and analyses the DCP and the
current state of the target device to perform additional
control operations.
Fig 3:Universal Remote Controller ( Android Mobile
phone)
Communication interfaces are used between the
Universal Remotecontroller (AndroidMobilePhone)and the
target devices, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and IR.

Fig 4: Software Stacks for the PPCB
Device Control Profile is a file that specifies the
properties and descriptions of a target device and remote
controller controls appliances by the transmission of
messages.Underlyinginformationcommunicationinterfaces
use an IR transceiver to receive detection from the Remote
Controller when the Remote controller is pointing to the IR
transceiver of the control Box. Target Control generates
DCPs and corresponding DCPs to the Universal remote
Control of the remote controller. Linuxplatformisapplied as
the operating platform of the control Box. UPnP Device
executes the received UPnP Control commands.
3.2 Device Control Profile
A remote controller controls the appliances by the
transmission of messages. The XML messages increases the
convenience of discovering and controlling appliances, the
complicated control formats and sizes consume significant
bandwidth, produce heavy loads and create bottlenecks in
the network transmission.
Thus design of the DCP includes:1) A finite state
machine that represents the dependencies of every
operational state of appliance and 2)multiple bit-string
formed.
4. SYSTEM IMPLIMENTATION
The feasibility of the proposed control system, two
real prototypes is implemented, including a fan and a light
control system.
A. LPC2129 ARM-7 Board
The control Box is embedded with an ARM7-based
development board, which is equipped with 200 MHz, 1M
bytes Flash, 64 M bytes NAND Flash, 64 M bytes SDRAM and
22 general purpose input/output (GPIO) interfaces. The
internal software components are developed based on the
Linux 2.4.18 version.
Fig 5: LPC2129 ARM-7 Board
The communication between the PPRC and the PPCB
are IR, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. The control gateway is
equipped with 2.3 GHz, 2G bytes SDRAM, two USB
connectors, and one USB IR receiver. The internal data
transmission between the control gateway and the power
line controller uses an USB cable. The plugs from 1 to 8 are
connected to a power line via a power line network.
Two control prototypes have been launched in IoT-
based smart homes. The Point and Press Remote Controller
is implemented on the platform of a commercial smart
phone, which is equipped with 1.2 GHz, 1G bytes Random
Access Memory(RAM),16GbytesRead OnlyMemory(ROM),
a Bluetooth Communication, a Wi-Fi Communication, a G
sensor, and a micro-universal serial bus interface. In
additional, all software components are developed basedon
the Android 4.1 version.
5. APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
In this project we develop the android application for
controlling the home appliances.Nowa daysomanyandroid
application developed tools are available like as Android
Studio, Eclipse, Appcelerator, Xamarin.. etc.
Eclipse is a java based open-source platform that allows a
software developer to a create a IDE from plug-in
components built by Eclipses members . It is start in 2001
when IBM donated 3 million lines code from its java tools.
Appceletor titanium is an open source frame work that
allows the creation of mobile applications on platforms IOS,
Android , windows phone from a singlejava scriptcodebase
developed by Appcelerator. Appcelerator studio IDE at $36
per month per seat. Xamarin is Microsoft-owned scan-
Francisco, California-based s/w company founded in my
mono for android, mono for touch.

Android Studio (2013) is the official IDE for android
platform. It was announced on May at the Google-I/O
conference.
In this paper we are develop the android application by
using Android Studio Tool. It supports gradle (this allows
you to really have control over the build , create different
application flavors, different signing configuration and so
on). In the Android studio layout view youhavetheoptionto
view both the actual layout and the xml at the same time,
while in Eclipse you must choose between the two tabs. It
feels better. From doing a refactoring to viewing the Logcat
The refactoring seems more solid and the Logcat does not
“disappear” as it happens in Eclipse. Android Monitor that
displays the debug massages.Itdisplaymessagesinreal time
and also keeps a history. So we can view older messages.
Logcat is a command line tool that dumps a log of s/m
messages including stack traces when the devices thous an
error and message that you have written from your
application with log clear. Its the future. Sooner or later this
is going to be the standard, as Google is actively developing
it.
5.1 Application Development Flowchart
Android Studio is the official integrated
development environment (IDE) for the Android platform.
Android Studio was in early access preview stage starting
from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage
starting from version 0.8 which was releasedinJune2014.It
is available for download on WindowsandLinuxandreplace
Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as Google’s
primary IDE for native Android application development.
In this paper the application developed flow chart
of develop the Android Application as shown below. Smart
homes that have appliances lighting or any electronic
devices that can be controlled remotely by the owner often
via mobile Application. An android phone is a smart phone
running on Google’s open source androidoperatingsystems.
Flowchart management:
Most management of the life cycle is done
automatically by the system via the activity stack.
The activity class has the following method call
backs to helps you manage the application steps:
– onCreate()
– onStart()
– onResume()
– onPause()
– onStop()
– onRestart()
– onDestroy()
Fig 6: Basic Application Development flow chart
5.2 Sampling Coding Of The Android Application
The sampling code of the android application as
given below. The Android main activity control code is
@SuppressLint("WifiManagerLeak")
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
fan = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.im_fan);
fan.setOnClickListener(this);
motor = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.im_motor);
motor.setOnClickListener(this);
light = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.im_light);
light.setOnClickListener(this);
changeStatus = (AppCompatButton)
findViewById(R.id.changeStatus);
changeStatus.setOnClickListener(this);
//reference to the text view
status = (AppCompatTextView)

findViewById(R.id.status);
//reference to the bluetooth adapter
mBluetoothAdapter =
BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
//check if adatpter is available, please note if you running
//this application in emulator currently there is no
support for bluetooth
if(mBluetoothAdapter == null){
status.setText("BlueTooth adapter not found");
changeStatus.setText("BlueTooth Disabled");
changeStatus.setEnabled(false);
}
//check the status and set the button text accordingly
else {
if (mBluetoothAdapter.isEnabled()) {
status.setText("BlueTooth is currently switched
ON");
changeStatus.setText("Switch OFF Bluetooth");
}else{
status.setText("BlueTooth is currently switched
OFF");
changeStatus.setText("Switch ON Bluetooth");
}
}
toggleButton = (ToggleButton)
findViewById(R.id.toggleButton);
textView = (AppCompatTextView)
findViewById(R.id.text_view);
toggleButton.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new
CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton
compoundButton, boolean checked) {
if (checked) {
textView.setText("WiFi is ON");
WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager)
getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
wifi.setWifiEnabled(true);
} else {
textView.setText("WiFi is OFF");
WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager)
getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
wifi.setWifiEnabled(false);
}
}
});
}
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e)
Fig 7: Android Application Implementation for
Smart home Appliance (a) Android Application
icon (b) Main Activity for Android Application (c)
Light Control Activity (d) Fan Control Activity (e)
Motor Control Activity.

6. RESULTS
We have evaluated the proposed design by
performing demo test. Results are proven to work properly.
Fig 8 (a) & (b) shows that Light, Fan controlled , power
switch applications are proven to work properly.Thepower
delivered to the Light can be switched “ON” and “OFF” as we
need it.
Fig 8(a): Lamp(light) controlled (ON State)
Fig 8(b): Fan controlled (ON State)
7. CONCLUSION AND FUTURESCOPE
Finally we concluded that our method works
effectively on smart home appliances by using android
application controlled through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
technologies.
The implementation oftheproposedcontrol system
is currently limited to IR sensors. More state dependent
devices must be identified. Therefore,tocontrol deviceswith
a more precise pointing mechanism, and support an auto
discovery mechanism ofstatedependenciesaretwopossible
directions for future research.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I thanks to my project guide, Mr. P. Sukumar for
providing necessary facilities towards carrying out this
work. I am also thankful to Mr. S. NarayanaRaju, Embedded
systems design Specialist, for all the support successfully
completion of this project. I am also very much thankful to
my project co-ordinator and entire ECE department faculty
for giving the freedom to choose this project, for continuous
support and encouragement.
The authors can acknowledge any person/authoritiesinthis
section. This is not mandatory.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Mr.K.NARENDRA REDDY, studying (M.Tech) in Embedded
Systems, at AITS, Rajampet. INDIA.Currentlyheisundergoing
internship training at EmWare Technologies (INDIA) pvt Ltd.
At Bangalore center. He is expected in embedded systems
peripheral drivers and 8/16/32 architectures etc.
Sri. Mr. P.Sukumar, professor – He is having vast Experience
of industry as well as Academics. He presentedseveral papers
in International and National Conferences and journals.

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