Secured Home Automation System using Mobile

Fingerprint Sensor
B.Karthick, UG Student, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli-627003

E.Muthu Raja, UG Student, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli-627003

Abstract on the Fingerprint sensor in the mobile. To

Today, Automation plays a major know about it deeply we must have a basic
role in almost all the domain. It helps idea about the microcontroller, android,
human in various field. An android android application.
application that can control the home
appliances has been proposed in this work. 1. Microcontroller
The system eliminates the use of personal A microcontroller is a self
computer and other computer peripherals contained system with peripherals,
by using the microcontroller. Future memory and a processor that can be used
ubiquitous home automation system will as embedded system. Microcontroller has
need security from theft. In this proposed one or more processor cores along with
work we are going to discuss a security for memory and input/output units. The
home automation systems without any microcontrollers are used to do specific
additional blocks or cost. We use task like switching air conditioner ON
Fingerprint sensor in the mobile devices when temperature rises above the certain
which are came as inbuilt now a day. limit. There are number of popular family
of microcontrollers which are used
Introduction according to their capability. In this home
The intelligent management of automation system we use arduino
power system reduces the power loss and microcontroller.
power consumption which is to be used in 2. Arduino
home, industry, academic institution, etc.
We are going to achieve this with the Arduino is an open source
growth, popularity and functionality of hardware and software company who
mobile devices. design and manufacture single board
microcontroller kit.
The home automation system
consists of Arduino and Wi-Fi Shield Arduino consist of both physical
which will act as a smart home micro web circuit board which is called as
server. Arduino is an open source microcontroller and it has Integrated
prototyping platform which enables the Development Environment (IDE) that runs
user to create interactive electronic objects. on our computer which is used to write
The arduino board has microcontroller
with 54 input/output pins.

The Wi-Fi interface of arduino is

by Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI).The
Security of the home automation is based
and upload instructions to the arduino

Figure3: Android Application Development

Literature Review
The [1] Paper discuss about the
framework of home automation system
Figure1: Arduino Microcontroller
based on arduino by using the internet so
3. Android that whenever the speed of the internet is
slow there will be a great lag when the
Android is open source mobile network speed is low.
operating system based on modified
version of linux kernel and other operating The [2] Paper discuss about the
system used in smart phones. The package home automation using LPC2148
file format used in android is Android microcontroller. The medium which is
Package (APK). It is used for installation used to communicate between the user and
and distribution of mobile apps. the microcontroller is Bluetooth.

The [3] Paper discusses about the

home automation using ATmega328
microcontroller and it uses GSM module
to communicate between the user and the
microcontroller ATmega328.

The [4] Paper discusses about the

home automation using PIC168F877A
microcontroller and it uses both Bluetooth
and GSM module to communicate
between the user and microcontroller.
Figure2: Symbol of Android

4. Android Application
Home Automation System
The software which allows the user Smart home provides a single
to do various things with the help of system approach to the management of all
hardware present in that smart phone. The the precious electronics items like TV, AC,
android applications are created by Audio system, etc
Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
and there are lot of other development Our main aim of the system is to
environment which is used to create the provide the ability to access and to control
android application. The one who make elements of the home which has the
Android application are called as important implication for security, home
developers. maintenance and peace of mid
 The home automation system Transmitting End of Home
mainly divided into two parts. They are Automation System
 Receiving End The End which consists of User is
 Transmitting End known as transmitting end of home
automation system.
User
Receiving End of Home
Automation System
The End which consist of Android
microcontroller and Wi-Fi module is Application
known as receiving end of home
automation system
Wi-Fi Module
The arduino microcontroller is used
to control the peripheral devices by Figure5: Transmitting End of Home Automation
collecting the instruction from the user via
Here, the starting point is from the
Wi-Fi module.
user who gives the information to the
The Wi-Fi module receives the phone. The phone will get the information
instruction from the user about the via the android application and transmits
controlling the peripheral devices and send the information through the Wi-Fi module
the information to the microcontroller via which is inbuilt now a day.
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) pins.

Device1

Wi-Fi Module Microcontroller Relay Module

Device2

Device3
Figure4: Receiving End of Home Automation System

Fingerprint Security in Home

The Microcontroller will receive the
Automation
information given by the user via SPI pins
Here, we are going to use the
from WI-Fi module and controls the
fingerprint sensor and an internet server to
devices via General Purpose Input Output
obtain the security. When we install the
(GPIO) pins. The relay module is used
home automation system the user will be
because it acts as a switch and provides the
provided a user name by the server and the
necessary voltage to the devices. This is
fingerprint of the user is uploaded on the
the receiving end of the home automation
server.
system.
Server

Internet
 If, it matches the user is allowed to
control the devices which are connected
with the microcontroller. If, not the user is
not allowed to access the devices which
are connected with the micro controller

Future Works
The Security is important
everywhere so that we have tried to stop
the unauthorized persons to access our
systems and it may be used in industry,
colleges, office, etc. So, that the man
When the user is trying to access power can be reduced in this zones
the home automation system he must Here we provide android
install the android application which is application based security solutions which
used to transmit the information to the are cheap and cost efficient the future
microcontroller. works may provide higher security in this
type of solutions and leads more security
User Name (or) in this area.
Fingerprint Information

Conclusion
Internet It is evident from this work that a
secured home automation system can be
easily made from low cost and with the
Server available components and it can be used to
control multiple components like TV, AC,
Not Match
Match

refrigerator, etc. The main advantage is the

component required is so small and they
can be packed in a small inconspicuous
container.
Permission Permission
This home automation can be also
Granted Denied
implemented over Bluetooth, GSM,
Zigbee, etc.

Then, the user should enter the user

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