Home Automation Using Smart Android Phone With Bluetooth Technology

Home automation system is a house or living environment that implants the technology to allow devices and systems to be restrained automatically. Now a days the smart phones and tablets are becoming powerful and with new and useful characteristics, and better features. Smartphone affordability increases every year and they have begun to play important roles in our day to day life due to its size and portability. Controlling home appliances using an Android cell phone gives user the ability to control the home appliances anywhere, anytime in their home and saves the time spent discovering for the controlled of home automation systems since the user's phone is often kept close at hand. This project presents the design and execution of a low cost prototype of Bluetooth based home automation system using Android cell phone. In this paper, we discuss possible developments and implementation of Bluetooth wireless Technologies and Android OS (operating system) based application for Tablet or Smartphone that communicates with the home appliances through Serial connection.