Smart Homes, Smarter Living: A Comprehensive Approach to Home Automation

Home automation is revolutionizing the way we look at conventional systems, however home automation is facing a problem as both controller and receiver have to be on same internet network to work properly. To resolve this issue we have kept receiver and controller on completely two different internet networks and we can control it from anywhere in this world, as here we have used node MCU ESP 8266 which facilitates our need. This project exhibits of a basic home automation system that can be operated by the user using a wireless device, like a smartphone with Bluetooth or WI-FI capabilities. The server software is operated on a desktop computer. The user has individual control over each light and fan thanks to the technology. At a predetermined time, it can automatically switch off the main lights and turn on a night lamp.