IOT Based Smart Home Automation System

With an aging population and the increasing acceptance of community-based care, there is a growing need for electronic assistive technology to support independent living, particularly among the elderly and persons with special needs. The voice controlled lighting system is a voice recognition system that aims to use of the language of English to control the lighting system of a specific room. It presents an automated approach of controlling the lights in a household that could ease the task of using the traditional method of the switch. It therefore uses the voice recognition google APIs to articulate the voice of the person speaking and effectively come up with the command that would enable it to control the lighting system of the house. Throughout the project design and Implementation, the use of the Arduino mega programing tool is of much importance while at the same time incorporating the Google Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and libraries in the ultimate design of the software.The connection between the microcontroller and the android application is established via Bluetooth module, a widespread wireless technology used for sharing data. A very important consideration is the vocabulary template that include specific words and phonemes.