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HOME AUTOMATION ON ESP8266
Ms.M.Malathi
Assistant Professor: Dept. of I.T.,
Sri Krishna College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
M.Dhanushyaa
UG Scholor: Dept of I.T.,
Sri Krishna College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
Abstract Smart homes refers to energy efficient, time
saving includes reduces the human efforts. Commercial
content distribution network (CDNs) has Video-on-demand
(VOD) services for on-demand capacity provisioning on
smart television (Home Automation). The content has full
control and customization, so they prefer self- managed
content infrastructure. The initial capital investment for
physical infrastructure was so expensive and quite difficult
for management. The objective of key providers was to
reduce the server rental cost by accessing through the
efficient and inexpensive ESP8266 chip to the cloud
platforms on which dynamic server provisioning to reduce
the server rental cost which was the key objective for
content providers. In this paper we addressed the
challenges of reducing the cost of accessing the cloud
platforms. We present the construction of ESP8266 with the
Arduino or microcontroller are attached to get the smart
television, where all our choice of videos can be stored and
retrieved at any time. Adafruit, Electrodragon, Sparkfun
helps to get the chip. Through the software development kit
(SDK) in ESP8266 that allow the chip to be programmed
which remove the need of the microcontroller. Generally
accessing cloud facility will produce high cost but in this
paper gives the replacement of the accessing the cloud
with the ESP8266 serial chip which operated in low
power consumption with the low cost because it has the
three configurable sleep modes.
KeywordsAutomation; ESP8266; Sensors
I. INTRODUCTION
Home automation is commonly called smart home
[1]. It involves the control and handle the things like
light, fan, door, alarming for certain remainders,
security purposes etc. All the things are connected to
the internet and all of them can accessed at any place
and any time. Most popular protocol communication
for the products include X10, Ethernet, ZigBee and
Z-Wave, or other protocols [2] are all incompatible
with other. The web server is simultaneously updated
by sensing the status of the things which are
connected to the network. The status of the
appliances is controlled by the switch it either ON or
OFF using the computer technology. It also provides
the security, energy efficient [3], and ease of use,
hence it is adopted more. It also helps by providing to
control and monitoring on web browser. The main
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A.Gowsalya
UG Scholor: Dept of I.T.,
Sri Krishna College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
A.Janani
UG Scholor: Dept of I.T.,
Sri Krishna College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
objective of the project is to help handicapped people
and aged people by alerting in the critical situations.
All the devices can be used in our own sitting place
itself. The problem overcome by this paper is about
that home automation is generally implemented by
using Bluetooth through our PC. Pin check algorithm
is used to implement this set-up by using the cable
network other than the wireless communication. The
device ESP8266, which is the embedded device used
to access the cloud. The home automation using
Bluetooth with the help of PC has implemented by
N.Srikanthan [4].The range is limited by using the
Bluetooth device. The devices are controlled by the
telephone and with PIC controlling remote device by
Hasan [5]. The IOT devices uses different types of
protocol. MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry
Transport) is one of the useful and advance. Because
it is easy to implement, open, lightweight, low
bandwidth protocol. We can also use PIR sensor and
proximity. Where the devices in IOT is used for
controlling or nominating the devices where all of
them are far away from this. MQTT and TCP
protocols are also used to implement the ESP8266
Wi-Fi module. The potential IOT applications
develop the environment that covers all together the
applications, command, control and routing process
and security of the node and system. All the IOT
devices include various objects like personal
computer, smart phones, tablets, which gives the
communication between the things and people and
also the things between them [6]. To reduce the need
for the home intervention, we are used to control the
home automation through the use of control systems
[7].
II. PROPOSED SYSTEM
ESP8266 (currently ESP8266EX) is a chip which
is a highly integrated Wi-Fi SoC solution where in
the Internet of Things industry, the users overcomes
the efficient power usage efficiently, design and
performance also provides networkable foundation of
networkable foundation for facilitating end-point IOT
developments. The vendors repeatedly created the
ESP8266 chip at their cores includes multitude of
modules. As well as the Olimex, Adafruit, Sparkfun,
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WeMos, ESPert (ESPresso) all make various
modules. ESP8266 can act either as the slave to a
host MCU or as a standalone application. When it act
as a host, it promptly boots up from flash. The high
speed cache helps to increase the system performance
and the system memory gets optimized
A. Home Automation
The ESP8266 with on board Wi-Fi capabilities
and also has integrated processor. Acts as an perfect
chip for Home Automation field. In this paper we are
going to use the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266
breakout, which will be easy to use in the ESP8266
breakout board and two components such as a sensor
module and a lamp controller. We can able to control
the small home automation system anywhere in the
world through Adafruit IO.
B. Protocols of the Wi-Fi
Direct Wi-Fi support.
802.11 b/g/n/e/i support.
P2P Discovery, P2P GO (Group Owner)
mode, GC(group Client) mode and P2P
Management of Power.
Security features such as 802.11i which
provides pre-authentication, and TSN.
Seamless roaming support.
C. Local Device
A device want to connect to the router by ESP-
TOUCH, the server-side is deactivated. The Fig 1,
device is used to accessible over Wi-Fi network but
not over to the cloud.
Fig1 : Local network
D. Cloud Device
A device want to connect to the router by ESP-
TOUCH,the server-side is activated. The Fig 2,the
device is connected with the cloud platform and
accessed through cloud status, online status, and
offline status.
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Fig2:server (cloud network)
E. Power Supply
a)Digital Power Supply: The chip has two digital
pins for power supply, pin 11 and pin 17. The
additional filter capacitor is not needed for digital
power supply.
b)Analog Power Supply: The chip has five
analog pins for providing power supply, includes the
pin 1, pin 3, pin 4. pin 28, pin 29 are used for internal
PLL. This type of power supply will damage due to
increase of current when analog signal is passed over
in it. The digital power supply is efficient.
F. Power Consumption
The ESP8266 series chip provides the three
configurable sleep modes. The sleep mode is chosen
by the users. The 3 sleep modes are:
Modem-sleep
Light sleep
Deep-sleep
To enable the modes whether the device should
act either Modem-sleep or Light-sleep is done by the
SDK. The user can control the Deep-sleep mode and
can also be able to enable by calling the function
instantly.
a) Modem-Sleep: When the chip is connected to
the router in the station mode, the Modem-sleep
mode is activated. The connection is enabled by the
DTIM beacon mechanism. Here, the power is saved
when the Wi-Fi module circuit is close to the
ESP8266 chip, the circuit between the two DTIM
Beacon intervals. According to the interval time of
the router , the sleep time is decided. During the
sleep, the chip can receive the interactive information
from any server or mobile phone where the ESP8266
chip is always connected to the Wi-Fi. The router
interval is generally 100ms-1000ms.
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b) Light-Sleep: The power consumption is too
lower when it is in this mode, which is similar to the
Modem-sleep. Except from Wi-Fi circuit, ESP8266
also power powers off clock and immediately
suspends the internal CPU. Which would be made as
the less power than in Modem-sleep mode.
c) Deep-Sleep: Automatically, the system cannot go
into Deep-sleep. To enable the Deep-sleep mode the
interface function system_deep_sleep is called by the
users. The ESP8266 chip will be turn off Wi-Fi
connectivity and data connection. The periodic wake-
ups are controlled by the working of the RTC
module.
G. Requirements
Hardware and Software
We are going to use two different modules such as
lamp controller and a sensor board. The two modules
needs Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 breakout, male
jumper wires for the need of necessary connections
and a breadboard. To measure the temperature and
humidity, we use the DHT11 sensor with the sensor
board. PowerSwitch Tail2 is used to attach a lamp in
the lamp controller. Finally we need one FTDI friend
board (USB cable) to program the ESP8266 breakout
board. On the software side, we need the Arduino
IDE install it including the ESP8266 package which
is to be installed.
a) Sensor Module
The construction starts by configure the hardware
to the sensor module by placing the ESP8266
breakout board and DHT sensor on the breadboard.
The DHT sensor is connected by connecting the first
pin of the sensor to the V+ (VCC)pin from the
ESP8266 board. Then connecting the ground pin of
the ESP8266 to the last pin of the sensor. At last,
connecting the pin number 5 of ESP8266 breakout
board to the pin number 2 of the DHT sensor. The
sensor module construction gets over. Refer Fig3,
Fig3: Sensor module
b) Lamp Controller Module: The first construction
is to connect the ESP8266 breakout board on the
breadboard also connect the PowerSwitch Tail Kit.
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Then connect the two pins on the right on the GND
pin of ESP8266 board and the +in pin to the pin
number 5 of ESP8266. Finally the construction gets
over by connecting the lamp or any electrical device
to the PowerSwitch, the other end of the
PowerSwitch is maintained with electricity.Refer
Fig.4,
Fig4: Lamp Controller Module
H. Features of the ESP8266
For low-power operation, the radio biasing
is adaptive.
Signal processing is so advanced.
Spur cancellation.
Common cellular, LCD interference
mitigation, LVDS, Bluetooth, all uses radio
co-existence mechanism.
I. Project Control
Using the Adafruit IO we can control the project.
Anywhere in the world, we can control our device
using the Adafruit IO dashboard and used to control
our modules. The other way is to create the feeds that
we used in our project that include temperature,
humidity and lamp. Add Gauge widget, and connect
to the temperature feed, same as for humidity. Then,
create a toggle button widget, and then connect it
with the lamp feed. Thus any devices can be
accessed.ss
III. RELATED WORK
The earlier implementation can be done either in
one of the following classifications:
J. ASP.net
It is a server-side web application, where dynamic
web pages, web services and application can be
designed. The status of the appliances are handled by
this web server. The users are able to control the
status of the appliances according to their desires.
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K. Software Design
Normal way of controlling the IOT devices by
developing the website. In that, it has the functions
like light, humidity, and temperature control. With
the help of these functions we can check and also
check the status based on our wishes. The server and
sensors together used in the distributed automation
system. The control of the sensor and monitors are
done with the various sensors. Wi-Fi technology
connects server and the sensors, used to improve
security, mobility and scalability.
L. Arduino
Based on the ATmega2560, the Arduino
microcontroller is chosen. Sensors are attached to it
and updating the status of the appliances is done on
web server. The C++ coding is very helpful for the
development and to do more specific functions.
M. Hardware Design
PCB, humidity sensor and Arduino are used in the
hardware parts. Two devices say fan and light, both
are connected to the PCB. Sensor is connected to
Arduino for sensing the humidity and temperature.
Arduino and PCB are interacted through PC. Amul
Jadhav [8]used XML format for automation system
which has been earlier easily ported to other mobile
devices. R.Piyare [9]used design which has low cost,
free from wire connection to home automation.
Jitendra R [10] used ZigBee network concepts
introduced the elimination of wiring in case of
automation which of wired.
IV. CONCLUSION
This paper gives the basic knowledge of IOT,
where all the appliances are controlled and can also
update the status of the device. ESP8266 is very
useful in IOT industry where it is cost efficient,
security, power is saved , compact in design and its
performance is reliable. Mainly used for aged people,
handicapped where all the devices are easily control
when the users are in out of town. The convenience is
increased by accessing wherever and saves our
valuable time, cost. ESP8266 would be no longer
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burned by the users heating bill and also it is cheap in
cost for our home automation.
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