1.

0Abstract
The task at hand was to build a Smart Home System, emphasizing more towards
smart control rather than remote control of the special features in the house.
The system to be developed must function in a way where the many different
features and devices in the house can be controlled from anywhere around the
house and to a certain radius outside the house. Thus, TCP/IP connections will be
put to use for good consistency.
2.0Acknowledgement
I would like to thank a number of people who helped me complete this
assignment. First of all, my lecturer Mr.Syed who choose to guide us with support
and compassion and at the same time not spoon feeding us . It was a wonderful
learning experience in each tutorial classes as we got to experiment ourselves
with our creativity before being taught the correct way to develop certain parts
of the system. Besides that, I must also thank few seniors from my course who
were kind enough to share their knowledge at times of doubt. Lastly, the support
forum of National Instruments official webpage was of extreme help as most of
solutions to the problems I encountered while completing the assignment could
be found there.
3.0Introduction
Labview programs are also known as virtual instruments as the way the system
works emulates actual physical instruments. It is a totally different approach to
programming compared to common programming languages such as Java or C
because Labview uses a graphical programming environment with ease of drag
and drop features. Although Labview was initially released for the Apple
Macintosh in 1986, current labview supports and is compatible and can be used
in many different platforms such as Windows, Mac OS or even Linux. Labview is
mostly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation.
Labview files have the extension .vi, which is an abbreviation for Virtual
Instrument. LabVIEW offers lots of additional Add-Ons and Toolkits.
For this assignment, all the basic concepts of Labview and certain algorithms
have been put to place in the process to complete the system. Although there
was a floor plan provided at the assignment question, it was decided to create a
different floor plan with all the minimum basic requirement according to the
developers creativity. The user of the system would be able to control most
devices in the house through remote control and some parts of the devices
through smart features such as temperature change in the refrigerator according
to time of the day and automatically switching on air-conditioning. The system
was developed thoroughly using only Labview2010 without the use of any
external coding languages. Two different VIs were used namely the Client VI and

the Server VI. The client provides an input interface for the user whereas the
server processes and produces an output according to user input. The Client and
Server VIs were able to be connected through a certain networking protocol
known as TCP/IP. The most notable among many features in the system are the
addition of automated lights, curtains and doors. Besides, there is also the
inclusion of auto temperature detection and alarm systems together with the
inclusion of video players.
4.0 Features and Advantages of Labview2010
4.1 Dataflow Programming
The programming language used in Labview, is a dataflow programming
language. It is capable of parallel execution. Multi-processing and multithreading hardware is automatically used by the built-in system. Execution is
determined by the structure of a graphical block diagram on which the developer
connects different function-nodes by drawing wires. These wires transmit
variables and any node can execute as soon as all its input data become
available.
4.2 Graphical Programming
Labview joins the creation of user interfaces known as front panels into the
development cycle. Labview programs are called virtual instruments (VIs). Each
VI has three components: a block diagram, a front panel, and a connector panel.
The connector panel is used to represent the VI in the block diagrams of other
incoming Vis. The graphical approach also allows non-programmers to build
programs simply by dragging and dropping virtual representations of lab
equipment with which they are already familiar. The LabVIEW programming
environment, with the included examples and the documentation, makes it
simple to create small applications.