Home Automation System Using Android Mobile Phone

International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163
Issue 04, Volume 5 (April 2018) www.ijirae.com
HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM USING ANDROID

MOBILE PHONE
Praful Nandankar*
Electrical Engineering. Department
Government College of Engineering, Chandrapur
pppful@gmail.com
Akash Zade
akashzade02@gmail.com
Namrata Wadhai
namratawadhai15@gmail.com
Manuscript History
Number: IJIRAE/RS/Vol.05/Issue04/APAE10088
Received: 10, April 2018
Final Correction: 15, April 2018
Final Accepted: 24, April 2018
Published: April 2018
Citation: Nandankar, Zade & Wadhai (2018). HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM USING ANDROID MOBILE
PHONE. IJIRAE::International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering, Volume V, 149-153.
doi://10.26562/IJIRAE.2018.APAE10088
Editor: Dr.A.Arul L.S, Chief Editor, IJIRAE, AM Publications, India
Copyright: ©2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
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Abstract— This paper presents the overall design of Home automation system with low cost and wireless system.
Home automation plays an important role in our daily life. Home automation saves money, time and it also
reduces labour work. Home automation system is advantageous for old aged and handicapped person. The standard
of living at home is also improved by smart home concept. The switch mode and voice mode are used to control the
home appliances. The video feedback is received in the android application which streams the video of IP Camera.
This paper presents the main control system which implements the wireless technology and this technology
provides remote access from android phones. The design remains the existing electrical switches and provides
more safety control on the switches with low voltage activating method. The switches status is synchronized in all
the control system whereby every user interface decodes the real time existing switches status. This system is
designed to control electrical appliances and devices in house with low cost and ease of installation. The system
designed in this paper is user friendly.
Keywords— Home Automation systems; Relay; Arduino; Home Security; Automation;
I. INTRODUCTION
Home automation system reduces labour work and money. In recent years, the interest for home automation
among consumers are increasing. Home automation provides home safety for dwellers. . It automatically turn
lights on in closets, stairways, and other dark places. Thus accidentally tripping or running into thing is
decreased. Home automation system doesn’t have any influence on environmental issues. In this regard, home
automation provides a better solution. The devices incorporated in home automation system consumes less
power. It also saves energy. Thus home automation technology is so far environmentally suitable. The comfort
and security of houses have been enhanced in home automation system.
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Besides, people are concerning over costs. In offices, a division of people are employed only to make supervision
of some manual means typed work. Home automation is replacing those arrangements. For this, cost is highly
reduced. Besides, for manual labour engaged to control appliances waste energy in cases. It is seen that
appliances continue to run though people are not present in their respective places. For this, energy
cannot stop consuming. If this happens for a long time then there have possibility to misuse energy in a
huge amount. To overcome this obstacle, home automation is encouraged to apply. Hence, home automation is
presented as energy efficient. There are different types of communication in control appliances to control home
appliances, industrial appliances, and other type of automation. There are two types of communications i.e. wired
and wireless. In wireless communications, the signals are transmitted wirelessly like using radio frequency and in
wired communication, copper wires are used. In this paper, DTMF based home automation system controls home
appliances wirelessly. The microcontroller is not used in above home automation system.
II. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
The block diagram of home automation system is shown in Fig.1. Home automation system comprises of Android
mobile phone, DTMF Decoder, Relay driver and AC loads.
Fig. 1 Block diagram of Home Automation system

The abbreviation of DTMF stands as Dual Tone Multiple Frequency. DTMF controlled home automation works on
DTMF technology which exists in Dial tone. DTMF tone is created by using some frequencies. DTMF tone is
generated by adding or mixing two or more frequencies. These frequencies are shown in frequency table in Fig.2.
When one upper and one lower frequencies are mixed, then a tone is created and this tone is named as Dual Tone
Multiple frequency.
Fig. 2. Frequency Table

A. DTMF Decoder
DTMF decoder plays an important role in home automation system. The MT8870D/MT8870D-1 is a complete
DTMF receiver integrating both the band split filter and digital decoder functions. The filter section uses switched
capacitor techniques for high and low group filters; the decoder uses digital counting techniques to detect and
decode all 16 DTMF tone-pairs into a 4-bit code. External component count is minimized by on chip provision of a
differential input amplifier, clock oscillator and latched three-state bus interface. DTMF decoder has complete
DTMF receiver. It consumes low power and power down mode is also inherent in DTMF decoder. It also has
features like internal gain setting amplifier, adjustable guard time and central office quality. DTMF decoders are
used in various applications like paging systems, repeater systems, mobile radio, credit card systems and telephone
answering machine.
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Fig. 3. Pin Diagram of MT8870

B. Relay Driver
AC loads are connected to DTMF decoder through relay driver IC ULN2003A. It is difficult to use a number of relays
with transistors, so, relay driver ICs can be used for availing more relays. Seven relays are used with relay driver
circuit using ULN2003 and ULN2803 uses eight relays. It is also used for interfacing microcontroller to relay. The
clamp diodes are built in these relays which eliminates the use of freewheeling diodes. ULN2003 contains 7 high-
voltage and high current Darlington pairs and each pair is rated for 50V and 500mA. Input pins can be triggered by
+5V. All seven output pins can be connected to gather to drive loads up to (7×500mA) ~3.5A. These are directly
controlled by logic devices like Digital Gates, Arduino, and PIC etc. The relay driver IC ULN2003 has numerous
applications such as logic buffers in digital electronics, touch sensor for Arduino, relay driver module etc. It is also
used to drive stepper motors and high current loads using digital circuits.
III. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM OF HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Fig. 4. Circuit diagram of Home Automation System

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The circuit diagram for DTMF controlled home automation system is shown in Fig.4. In this circuit diagram, a
DTMF decoder is used named as MT8890 IC which converts dial pad tone into the four bit digital outputs. The loads
are connected to DTMF decoder IC through a relay driver namely ULN2003. LIGHT, FAN and TV are connected to
Q1, Q2 and Q3 of DTMF decoder IC. 5 volt SPDT 3 relays are used for controlling LIGHT, FAN and TV.
In this circuit diagram, three LED’s are also connected at relay and 9V DC battery is also used for driving LED’s. AC
appliances are controlled by pressing dial pad keys like 1, 2,3,4,5 etc. The mobile phone is connected using
auxiliary wire to the DTMF Decoder circuit. The output of DTMF decoder for every key pressed is obtained
according to the frequency table explained above in Fig.2. In the above circuit diagram, at Q1, LIGHT is connected,
at Q2 FAN is connected and at Q3 TV is connected through relay driver IC. Q4 is kept open. When key1 is pressed at
the dial pad of mobile phone, DTMF decodes this tone and generates a digital output given in the frequency table.
Now according to given output in table, Q1 is HIGH and Q1 is connected with LIGHT, so LIGHT turned ON. If LIGHT
is to be turned OFF, then key number 8 is pressed at the dial pad of mobile phone. When key number 8 is pressed,
Q1, Q2 and Q3 will become LOW and Q4 will remain HIGH. As Q4 is left open so the output of Q4 doesn’t have any
effect on loads. The status of Q4 whether it will be HIGH or LOW, it doesn’t change the operation of loads. The
status of Q1 is LOW which will force LIGHT to turn OFF. When key number 8 is pressed, all Q1, Q2 and Q3 are LOW,
so other appliances are also not get affected. To turn ON FAN, key number 2 is pressed because by pressing key2
only Q2 is activated and rest of outputs will remain in LOW condition. The load FAN is also turned OFF by pressing
key number 8 in the dial pad of mobile phone. The load TV is turned ON by pressing key number 4 and to turn OFF
TV, key number 8 is pressed. If all appliances are to be turned ON, then a key number 7 is pressed and key number
8 is pressed to turn OFF all the appliances. If LIGHT and FAN is to be turned ON simultaneously, then a key number
3 is pressed according to the table. Now, if TV is to be turned ON, then key number 7 is pressed instead of key
number 4 as key 4 will turn OFF other appliances. If TV is to be turned ON without turning OFF previous appliances,
then only key number 7 is pressed. If only LIGHT is to be turned OFF, then a key number 6 is pressed. All four
appliances are controlled according to table output.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
DTMF based home automation system has been tested and successfully implemented. The prototype of DTMF
based home automation system has been built and it is shown in Fig.5.
Fig. 5. Home Automation System
V. ADVANTAGES, LIMITATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Home automation system is highly sensitive system. This system works with any mobile phone from anywhere.
This system is of low cost and having reliable arrangement. Home automation system is durable and efficient.
Home automation system deals with some drawbacks. It does not work properly in weak network areas. It will
become inefficient in noisy surroundings. The loads connected to Home automation systems are limited as these
loads are connected to DTMF decoder through relay driver IC ULN2003. DTMF based Home automation system are
widely used for the control of Home appliances, Hotel lights or fans, shops and showrooms appliances and
industrial appliances.
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VI. CONCLUSIONS
DTMF based home automation system has been tested and successfully implemented. This system is highly reliable
and efficient for old aged and handicapped person. This system has a wide scope development and modification.
The main control system is designed which implements the wireless technology which provides remote access from
android phones. This design provides the status of existing electrical switches whether it is turned ON or OFF. This
system uses DTMF technology which generates DTMF tone according to key pressed in dial pad of android mobile
phone.
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International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163

Issue 04, Volume 5 (April 2018) www.ijirae.com

HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM USING ANDROID

Fig. 1 Block diagram of Home Automation system

Fig. 2. Frequency Table

Fig. 3. Pin Diagram of MT8870

Fig. 4. Circuit diagram of Home Automation System

Fig. 5. Home Automation System

V. ADVANTAGES, LIMITATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

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