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
Today, Automation plays a major
role in almost all the domain. It helps
human in various field. An android
application that can control the home
appliances has been proposed in this work.
The system eliminates the use of personal
computer and other computer peripherals
by using the microcontroller. Future
ubiquitous home automation system will
need security from theft. In this proposed
work we are going to discuss a security for
home automation systems without any
additional blocks or cost. We use
Fingerprint sensor in the mobile devices
which are came as inbuilt now a day.
Introduction
The intelligent management of
power system reduces the power loss and
power consumption which is to be used in
home, industry, academic institution, etc.
We are going to achieve this with the
growth, popularity and functionality of
mobile devices.
The home automation system
consists of Arduino and Wi-Fi Shield
which will act as a smart home micro web
server. Arduino is an open source
prototyping platform which enables the
user to create interactive electronic objects.
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
on the Fingerprint sensor in the mobile. To
know about it deeply we must have a basic
idea about the microcontroller, android,
android application.
1. Microcontroller
A microcontroller is a self
contained system with peripherals,
memory and a processor that can be used
as embedded system. Microcontroller has
one or more processor cores along with
memory and input/output units. The
microcontrollers are used to do specific
task like switching air conditioner ON
when temperature rises above the certain
limit. There are number of popular family
of microcontrollers which are used
according to their capability. In this home
automation system we use arduino
microcontroller.
2. Arduino
Arduino is an open source
hardware and software company who
design and manufacture single board
microcontroller kit.
Arduino consist of both physical
circuit board which is called as
microcontroller and it has Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) that runs
on our computer which is used to write
and upload instructions to the arduino
Figure1: Arduino Microcontroller
3. Android
Android is open source mobile
operating system based on modified
version of linux kernel and other operating
system used in smart phones. The package
file format used in android is Android
Package (APK). It is used for installation
and distribution of mobile apps.
Figure2: Symbol of Android
4. Android Application
The software which allows the user
to do various things with the help of
hardware present in that smart phone. The
android applications are created by
Android Software Development Kit (SDK)
and there are lot of other development
environment which is used to create the
android application. The one who make
Android application are called as
developers.
Figure3: Android Application Development
Literature Review
The [1] Paper discuss about the
framework of home automation system
based on arduino by using the internet so
that whenever the speed of the internet is
slow there will be a great lag when the
network speed is low.
The [2] Paper discuss about the
home automation using LPC2148
microcontroller. The medium which is
used to communicate between the user and
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.
Home Automation System
Smart home provides a single
system approach to the management of all
the precious electronics items like TV, AC,
Audio system, etc
Our main aim of the system is to
provide the ability to access and to control
elements of the home which has the
important implication for security, home
maintenance and peace of mid
 The home automation system
mainly divided into two parts. They are
 Receiving End
 Transmitting End
Receiving End of Home
Automation System
The End which consist of
microcontroller and Wi-Fi module is
known as receiving end of home
automation system
The arduino microcontroller is used
to control the peripheral devices by
collecting the instruction from the user via
Wi-Fi module.
The Wi-Fi module receives the
instruction from the user about the
controlling the peripheral devices and send
the information to the microcontroller via
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) pins.
Wi-Fi Module Microcontroller
Figure4: Receiving End of Home Automation System
The Microcontroller will receive the
information given by the user via SPI pins
from WI-Fi module and controls the
devices via General Purpose Input Output
(GPIO) pins. The relay module is used
because it acts as a switch and provides the
necessary voltage to the devices. This is
the receiving end of the home automation
system.
Transmitting End of Home
Automation System
The End which consists of User is
known as transmitting end of home
automation system.
User
Android
Application
Wi-Fi Module
Figure5: Transmitting End of Home Automation
Here, the starting point is from the
user who gives the information to the
phone. The phone will get the information
via the android application and transmits
the information through the Wi-Fi module
which is inbuilt now a day.
Device1
Relay Module
Device2
Device3
Fingerprint Security in Home
Automation
Here, we are going to use the
fingerprint sensor and an internet server to
obtain the security. When we install the
home automation system the user will be
provided a user name by the server and the
fingerprint of the user is uploaded on the
server.
Server
Internet

When the user is trying to access
the home automation system he must
install the android application which is
used to transmit the information to the
microcontroller.
User Name (or)
Fingerprint Information
Internet
Server
Not Match
Match
Permission Permission
Granted Denied
Then, the user should enter the user
name then the server check the user name
within the server. If, the username is
correct then the user should keep his
required finger in the finger print scanner.
Then the server match the fingerprint with
the old fingerprint which has been taken
while installing the system.
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
power can be reduced in this zones
Here we provide android
application based security solutions which
are cheap and cost efficient the future
works may provide higher security in this
type of solutions and leads more security
in this area.
Conclusion
It is evident from this work that a
secured home automation system can be
easily made from low cost and with the
available components and it can be used to
control multiple components like TV, AC,
refrigerator, etc. The main advantage is the
component required is so small and they
can be packed in a small inconspicuous
container.
This home automation can be also
implemented over Bluetooth, GSM,
Zigbee, etc.
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