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 International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications
Volume 8–Issue 4, 111-114, 2019, ISSN:-2319–7560

Home Automation and Surveillance: A review

K.S. Pachpor, Dr. C.N.Deshmukh,
Dept of Electronics and Telecomm., HoD, Dept of Electronics and Telcomm,
PRMITR, Badnera, PRMITR, Badnera,
Amravati(MS), India. Amravati(MS), India.

Abstract—Home automation and Surveillance systems are being consistently undergoing changes due to developments in
electronics and communication fields. Right from telephone controlled home appliances and simple camera based system, the
Home Automation and Surveillance today has entered the IoT era. Home automation makes life easier by providing all home
appliances control at single point which is mostly a smart phone. Surveillance requirement is rapidly increasing in domestic
and commercial applications due to its low cost and ease of deployment. This paper takes stock of how Home Automation
and Surveillance systems have been changed and implemented. Home Automation and Surveillance related literature of last
7-8 years has been referred for the review.

Keywords—Home automation, Surveillance, Raspberry Pi, OpenCV, CCTV, ZigBee, XBee, SimpleCV, Cloud, Gamma ray etc.

I. Introduction Dae-Man Han , 2010 (1) addresses a

new smart home control system based on sensor
The Surveillance and automation systems networks to make home networks more
have become very important and indispensable intelligent and automatic. He developed smart
for security reasons and energy conservation. home automation and home energy management
Home automation and Surveillance system are in system using IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee. It
use since last 25-30 years. Initially systems were gathers sensing information using occupancy
bulky and were not so sophisticated as they are sensor, Passive InfraRed (PIR) Sensor and photo
today. Home Automation terminology includes sensor.
the functioning of all household appliances. For
example, a micro-controller based system can Jihua Ye, 2012 (2) presented research
have the capability to control everything from work on adaptive smart home system. In this
Fan, air conditioning, lighting and overall system, the central controller uses feedback
electrical appliances. The home automation will information from household appliances to learn
help individual to monitor and control home the habits and to adjust the system automatically.
appliances remotely through internet. This The system uses toddler (used to find out the
paper reviews how home automation and operation rules of user ) and correlation
surveillance systems developed in last 8-10 algorithms (used to find out the relation of
years. Different techniques used for surveillance operations ) to learn the habits of the users.
like OpenCV, SimpleCV, Gamma ray correction
etc. are discussed and different home automation G. V. Vivek , 2015 (3) proposes IoT
architectures have also been focused in the paper. services using WiFi-ZigBee gateway for a home
automation system. A smart home automation is
II. Literature Survey: an integration of smaller electrical devices and
communicates with each other with a central
The brief review of techniques for processing unit. ZigBee nodes communicate
developing Home automation and surveillance wirelessly to the coordinator which is connected
system using IoT based frameworks is presented to a Linux board at the receiver end or the control
below. panel which is interfaced with a ZigBee

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transceiver, this transceiver module is designated Virginia Menezes, 2015 (8) proposes the
as a coordinator. Coordinator receives the sensor motion detection and tracking system for
data and sends the commands accordingly to the surveillance which uses Raspberry Pi and
ZigBee nodes present at the sensing environment computer vision using SimpleCV (SimpleCV is
with in the node. an open source framework for building computer
vision applications. It is a collection of libraries
Vamsikrishna Patchava, 2015(4) and software that can be used to develop vision
proposed a system for Smart Home Automation applications.) to detect moving objects in the
technique with Raspberry Pi using IoT. Here surveillance area, switch on the lights to capture
system uses a Raspberry Pi module with images and streams the camera feed online using
Computer Vision techniques. Using this, system MPJG Streamer, which can be viewed by any
connected home appliances can be controlled authorized person on the go.
through a monitor based internet. sensing and
surveillance function is carried out by Raspberry Setiya Purbaya, 2015 (9) proposes
Pi . Here intrusion detection is done using motion design of a system such as IP
sensors and camera will record on motion surveillance camera which based on an
detection. embedded system, with improved image
recording feature by using gamma
Mattia Gamba, 2015(5) in their correction feature which integrates with
research paper has proposed a solution based on cloud service . In the image correction
XBee a showed how XBee modules can be mechanism, image quality improvement is
utilized to build up a scalable and fully measured using a histogram. Here image
customizable home automation system through clarity is done using Gamma correction formula.
an easy way to link any new device to the others. Trade off has to be done while selecting value of
Furthermore, user interface in home automation Gamma ( to be used in formula). The larger
has been addressed in state of the art approaches the gamma value (G), the image is going
exploiting mobile devices use as portable home to be clearer. However, the image is also going to
automation control tools. be blurred.

Neel Oza, 2016(6) has proposed a low From Literature survey inference can
cost surveillance system. The proposed system is be drawn out that their are many issues pertaining
cloud based surveillance system for live video to development of IoT based system for Home
streaming This system provides the live automation and surveillance system. Some of the
streaming by using cloud, Raspberry Pi 2 module presented research works focus on automatic
and FFMPEG based USB Camera. The proposed monitoring and controlling of home appliances
work has ability to control and live video [1, 10, 11], effective energy management [3, 15,
streaming over the internet via cloud computing. 1], integration of different protocols [3, 12, 13]
Streaming and controlling is possible from and security [14]. However, no single
anywhere over the world as well as can upload technological solution has been reported for
the data to cloud. smart home system that addresses all the above
listed issues. Therefore, their is a huge potential
P Arun Chandra, 2016 (7) proposed
for developing a generic framework and
model uses Raspberry Pi that counts the number
technological solution for IoT based Technology
of pulses detected by Light sensor module. The
for smart home system that addresses all the
sensor is placed on the energy meter. The
issues.
Raspberry Pi counts the number of pulses to
calculate the energy consumption in kWh
according to the conversion mentioned on the
energy meter. This data is then sent to Google III. Home Automation and Surveillance system
Spreadsheets using Google API. The spreadsheet design considerations:
can be accessed on a website and android app
that were designed. Modularity : The different sub systems of
the said system needs to have fair degree of
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individuality. Specially home appliance modules home automation and surveillance systems. But
to connect them to IoT, surveillance module etc. need of the time is cost effective IoT based Home
automation and Surveillance system. The smart
Plug & Play scalability : The appliance phone based cost effective home appliance
connecting module should be of plug & play control system with power consumption
nature making it easy for end users to implement monitoring and integrated surveillance features
the system. can make the system more effective and popular.
Use of IoT platform for the system development
Robustness : Each sub system should be
can drastically reduce the system development
fault tolerant and must have capability of
time.
providing services all the time.

Reconfigerable: If, for some reason

subsystems of the system needs to be changed
(e.g. upgraded/advanced version of controller), in
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