A System for Smart Home Control of Appliances based on Timer and Speech Interaction

TL;DR

This paper presents a microcomputer-based system enabling control of home appliances via timer, voice commands, and GUI, aimed at improving accessibility for elderly and disabled individuals.

Contribution

It introduces a multi-modal control system integrating timer, voice, and GUI methods for home appliances using a parallel port interface.

Findings

Successfully controlled eight appliances in three modes

Enhanced accessibility for elderly and disabled users

Demonstrated effective integration of control methods

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to design and construct a microcomputer based system: to control electric appliances such as light, fan, heater, washing machine, motor, TV, etc. The paper discusses two major approaches to control home appliances. The first involves controlling home appliances using timer option. The second approach is to control home appliances using voice command. Moreover, it is also possible to control appliances using Graphical User Interface. The parallel port is used to transfer data from computer to the particular device to be controlled. An interface box is designed to connect the high power loads to the parallel port. This system will play an important role for the elderly and physically disable people to control their home appliances in intuitive and flexible way. We have developed a system, which is able to control eight electric appliances properly in these three modes.