Home Automation Using Packet Tracer

A Project Report
Submitted by

Samarth Gupta (159101121)

In partial fulfilment for the award of the degree

Of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

at

MANIPAL UNIVERSITY JAIPUR

JAIPUR
May 2018

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 Problem Statement

Many people are always on the move from place to place due to business demands. Some people
can spend a couple of days away from their home leaving all their household appliances without
any kind of monitoring and control. Some devices are left plugged into power sockets whereas
others are supposed to be plugged into and out of power sockets at different intervals depending
on the time of the day. All this requires an individual to manually attend to each of the devices
independently from time to time. All such monitoring and control can be done without
necessarily being around or inside the home. Some devices if not controlled properly consume a
lot of energy which leads to extra expenditure on electricity. Therefore, we propose to design an
internet-based home automation system which will enable one to remotely manage his/her
appliances from anywhere, anytime.

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 Abstract

The Home Automation is a wireless home automation system that is supposed to be implemented
in existing home environments, without any changes in the infrastructure. Home Automation let
the user to control the home from his or her computer and assignations that should happen
depending on time or other sensor readings such as light, temperature or sound from any device
in the Home Automation network

With advancement of Automation technology, life is getting simpler and easier in all aspects. In
today’s world Automatic systems are being preferred over manual system. With the rapid
increase in the number of users of internet over the past decade has made Internet a part and
parcel of life, and IoT is the latest and emerging internet technology. Internet of things is a
growing network of everyday object-from industrial machine to consumer goods that can share
information and complete tasks while you are busy with other activities. Wireless Home
Automation system(WHAS) using IoT is a system that uses computers or mobile devices to
control basic home functions and features automatically through internet from anywhere around
the world, an automated home is sometimes called a smart home. It is meant to save the electric
power and human energy. The home automation system differs from other system by allowing
the user to operate the system from anywhere around the world through internet connection. In
this project I present a Home Automation system(HAS) using Cisco Packet Tracer that employs
the integration of cloud networking, wireless communication, to provide the user with remote
control of various lights, fans, and appliances within their home and storing the data in the cloud.
The system will automatically change on the basis of sensors’ data. This system is designed to be
low cost and expandable allowing a variety of devices to be controlled.

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 Introduction

Homes of the 21st century will become more and more self-controlled and automated due to the
comfort it provides, especially when employed in a private home. A home automation system is
a means that allow users to control electric appliances of varying kind. Many existing, well-
established home automation systems are based on wired communication. This does not pose a
problem until the system is planned well in advance and installed during the physical
construction of the building. But for already existing buildings the implementation cost goes very
high.
In contrast, Wireless systems can be of great help for automation systems. With the advancement
of wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, cloud networks in the recent past, wireless systems are
used every day and everywhere.

Advantages of Home automation systems:

In recent years, wireless systems like Wi-Fi have become more and more common in-home
networking. Also, in home and building automation systems, the use of wireless technologies
gives several advantages that could not be achieved using a wired network only.
1) Reduced installation costs: First and foremost, installation costs are significantly reduced
since no cabling is necessary. Wired solutions require cabling, where material as well as the
professional laying of cables (e.g. into walls) is expensive.
2) System scalability and easy extension: Deploying a wireless network is especially
advantageous when, due to new or changed requirements, extension of the network is necessary.
In contrast to wired installations, in which cabling extension is tedious. This makes wireless
installations a seminal investment.
3) Aesthetical benefits: Apart from covering a larger area, this attribute helps to full aesthetical
requirements as well. Examples include representative buildings with all-glass architecture and
historical buildings where design or conservatory reasons do not allow laying of cables.
4) Integration of mobile devices: With wireless networks, associating mobile devices such as
PDAs and Smartphones with the automation system becomes possible everywhere and at any

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time, as a device's exact physical location is no longer crucial for a connection (as long as the
device is in reach of the network).
For all these reasons, wireless technology is not only an attractive choice in renovation and
refurbishment, but also for new installations.
Home Automation is automation of home, housework or household activity. In other words, it
refers to use of IT/computer to control home appliances. It integrates electrical devices in a house
with each other. For example: It can include centralized control of lighting, appliances, security
lock of gates & doors to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy, efficiency and safety.
In today's IT world, home automation is being popular due to easiness, flexible means of
viewing/monitoring and controlling the appliances and other things according to user’s comfort
and needs. The challenging part lies in simplicity and cost of installing them in home and varies
with increasing number of services to be monitored and controlled. This project named 'HOME
AUTOMATION USING PACKET TRACER’ is idea of home automation using Cisco Packet
Tracer. The popularity of home automation has been increasing greatly in recent years due to
considerable affordability and simplicity through smartphone and tablet connectivity. A home
automation system integrates electrical devices in a house with each other. The techniques
employed in home automation include those in building automation as well as the control of
domestic activities, such as lighting control system, and the use of other electrical appliances.
Devices may be connected through a home network to allow control by a personal computer and
may allow remote access from the internet. Through the integration of information technologies
with the home environment, systems and appliances can communicate in an integrated manner
which results in convenience, energy efficiency, and safety benefits. Due to the advancement of
wireless technology, there are several different of connections are introduced such as GSM,
WIFI, and Bluetooth. Each of the connection has their own unique specifications and
applications. Among the four popular wireless connections that often implemented in Home
Automation project, WIFI is being chosen with its suitable capability. The capabilities of WIFI
are more than enough to be implemented in the design. Also, most of the current laptop/notebook
or Smartphone come with built-in WIFI adapter. It will indirectly reduce the cost of this system.
This project deals about implementing smart home using new released cisco packet tracer
because this feature includes different sensor, actuator and different smart device used for home
automation. Some of the device are smart window, smart light, smart door, smart fan with

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different detector and sensor. To implement smart home, I used new released cisco packet tracer
simulation software to design and configure IOE device with classically networking device.

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 Objective

The main objectives of our project are as follows:

i. To remotely control home appliances and monitor them.

ii. To save time and utilize the energy efficiently
iii. To increase your independence and achieve greater control of home environment
iv. To make it easier to communicate with family
v. To improve personal safety
vi. To alert visually to emergency situations

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 Methodology

In order to implement smart home, I used new released cisco packet tracer, which included
different smart object used for home automation such as smart fan, smart window, smart door,
smart light, smart siren, smart webcam and different sensor is included.

To control this smart object and sensor, Home Gateway is used, since it provides programming
environment for controlling smart object connected to it and provide controlling mechanisms by
registering smart device to Home Gateway respectively.

Home Gateway:

Home Gateway have 4 Ethernet ports in addition to a wireless access point configured with the
"Home Gateway" SSID. To secure wireless connection WEP / WPA-PSK / WPA2 enterprise can
be configured on home gateway.

The figure shows six internet of Things device connected to a Home Gateway by using Ethernet
cable and wireless. To connect the Home Gateway to the Internet its Internet WAN Ethernet port

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available on home getaway. The IoE device can be remotely managed through a web interface
hosted by the Home Gateway. The Home Gateway internal (LAN) IP address is 192.168.25.1 but
it can also be accessed through its Internet facing IP address.
The above figure shows the smart object is connected to the home Gateway using Ethernet cable
and wireless medium to manage smart device local and remotely. Home gateway also works as
DHCP server by assigning IP address to each smart device that connected to it, used to
interconnect different smart object and provide programming environment with different
language those are JavaScript, python and visual basic, to control the connected smart object.

The above figure shows after registering smart device to home gateway all devices are accessed
through web by legitimate user. There are six IOE device registered to Home gateway those all
are controlled through web by legitimate person.

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 Implementation

To implement smart home using cisco packet tracer I used different sensor, smart device and
detector to make smarter. The following figure represent the home architecture that connected
each other using wireless and wired medium.

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Device Configuration and Setup:
ISP Router Configuration
Assigning hostname and Ip address for ISP router
Router>
Router>enable
Router#conf terminal
Router(config)#hostname ISP
ISP(config)#intgigabitEthernet 0/2
ISP(config-if)#ip address 10.10.220.1 255.255.255.0
ISP(config-if)#no shutdown
ISP(config)#intgigabitEthernet 0/0
ISP(config-if)#ip address 209.165.200.225 255.255.255.224
ISP(config-if)#no shutdown
ISP(config)#intgigabitEthernet 0/1
ISP(config-if)#ip address 209.165.201.225 255.255.255.224
ISP(config-if)#no shutdown

Configurating dhcp server for cell and IOE device

ISP(config)#ipdhcp excluded-address 209.165.201.225 209.165.201.230
ISP(config)#ipdhcp pool cell
ISP(dhcp-config)#network 209.165.201.225 255.255.255.224
ISP(dhcp-config)#default-router 209.165.201.225
ISP(dhcp-config)#dns-server 10.10.220.10
ISP(config)#ipdhcp excluded-address 209.165.200.225 209.165.200.230
ISP(config)#ipdhcp pool ioe
ISP(dhcp-config)#network 209.165.200.224 255.255.255.224
ISP(dhcp-config)#default-router 209.165.200.225
ISP(dhcp-config)#dns-server 10.10.220.10

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 Software Used

Cisco Packet Tracer (https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer)

Sublime Text 3 (https://www.sublimetext.com/3)

Currently cisco released new version of packet tracer that include IOE device with classically
networking device. Boards is also added to this version those are microcontrollers (MCU-PT),
single boarded computers (SBC-PT) that provide programming environment to control
connected object. Benefits of new released Packet Tracer are:
Offers a realistic simulation and visualization of IOT device
Permits users to design, build, configure smart home, smart city by providing different smart
object used for them.
Provide board to control smart object
Allows students to explore concepts IOE
Provide detector for sensor

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 Results

The figure above shows the light is on , the fan is moving at high speed , the door is unlocked ,
the siren is on , the window is open and webcam has started recording . This is based on the
conditions made on the Home Gateway that the legitimate user is able to control the brightness
of light (off , dim , on) , control fan speed (off , medium , high) , control door (lock , unlock) ,
control window (open , close) and monitor webcam recording.
After the successful connection to the server, the data of sensor are sent to the web server for
monitoring of the system. the web server page which will allow us to monitor and control the
system. By entering the assigned IP address in the web browser this web server page will appear.
The web server gives the information about the temperature in different places of the house and
motion state in the house. It also gives the status of the various electrical appliances like light,
fan etc which we can control remotely.

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 Conclusion

In this project, I implemented smart home using new released cisco packet, because this version
included different IOE device used for home automation. I used home Gateway to register smart
device on it to control them and Microcontroller (MCU) to interconnect different sensor and IOE
device. Also, MCU provide programming environment to manage different device, different
programming language available on MCU but I used JavaScript and python to control the device.
As we all are aware that the world is getting more and more connected and IoT does just that.
Many tech entrepreneurs are already starting off with IoT and making huge profits out of it.
Keeping the profits aside, if we think of it in a broader way, then we conclude that IoT has a
great future and in the next five years, it is going to revolutionize the world. IoT is like clay that
can be moulded in any way we wish, if provided with enough skills and expertise.
The home automation using Internet of Things has been experimentally proven to work
satisfactorily by connecting simple appliances to it and the appliances were successfully
controlled remotely through internet. The designed system not only monitors the sensor data, like
temperature, gas, light, motion sensors, but also actuates a process according to the requirement,
for example switching on the light when it gets dark. It also stores the sensor parameters in the
webpage (database) in a timely manner. This will help the user to analyse the condition of
various parameters in the home anytime anywhere

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