WIRELESS HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM VIA RASPBERRY PI USING RUBY ON RAILS AND REACT-NATIVE

Computer Science and Engineering

Today’s fast growing technology is slowly drifting towards automation. The generation wants to control all machinery and its processes. Home automation technology provides with an efficient system to control everyday home appliances. Our project deals with Wi-Fi technology, since the range is better than Bluetooth and ZigBee technologies. This project uses Raspberry Pi module along with Rails web framework in collaboration with react native. The backend is a standard Rails app exposing some API endpoints with JSON output . The frontend is an Express app running on Node.js, which uses React and talks to the Rails API. Rails is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages. The system is proposed to create a smart environment by switching on and off the target devices by Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi). The aim of our project is to have remote access to home appliances and thereby save electric power and human energy. This project uses Internet of Things to control basic home functions automatically through a computer or mobile device. In this paper we present a Wireless Home Automation System(WHAS) built using Raspberry Pi, Rails supported backend and React supported User Interface to help set up wireless communication, to provide the user with control of various appliances within the home. Lights, air conditioners, electronic doors and fans are among the appliances that can be used in this system. The control can be done remotely or when connected to the same network as the appliances. This system increases the safeness of the house and electricity conservation by providing monitoring system and improve the quality of domestic life by using the control buttons of targeted device. This is a low cost system and is expandable allowing further development.

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