Mitigating Interference and Energy Issues in Smart Homes Using Internet of Things

The smart home is extensively preferred, as it improves the residents’ lifestyles involving many disciplines, i.e., security, lighting, etc. The wide expansion of smart home increases size and complexity in network, therefore, it is crucial to tackle the numerous challenges associated to data loss attributable to efficient energy and interference management. In this research article, a specific smart home control system is proposed using ZigBee based on co-coordinator. The proposed system is composed of three components: 1) interference controlling system to control wireless interference among heterogeneous devices, 2) advanced energy management system to optimize the energy utilization and integrated the light source with sunlight, and 3) management control agent to manage the electronic devices and time efficiently. The efficient computer simulation is also executed to test the efficiency of the proposed scheme. The analysis and results reveal that the proposed system is efficient enough to reduce the power consumption of smart home devices. Moreover, it is further experienced that the proposed scheme is less affected by the interference.