Abstract:
This report presents a low-cost and flexible solution to control and monitor home and industrial appliances. The Popularity of automation devices has increased greatly in recent years due to higher affordability and simplicity through smartphone and tablet connectivity. For the purpose of this experiment, we have developed the Smart Outlet: a stand-alone communication unit, used to connect outlets to the internet.
The Smart Plug is a power switch which can be accessed via Wi-Fi connection. Users can plug devices into the Smart Plug to remotely switch power on/off, get information of device’s power consumption and local motion status, using wireless commands from the web and Android application. To access Smart Plug, we connect it with a router in Wi-Fi access point mode and control the Plug.
An Android-based Smartphone application and Website having the control panels, employs standard operations such as Get and Post requests that return responses to communicate between the remote user and the Plug using PHP MySQL Databases.
The main purpose of the project is to save the electricity by setting the time scheduling through the controlling interface. Through this smart IoT device we can control and get feedback from any plugged device. According to our opinion, there is a lot of need on large scale industries, laboratories, military fields and real life situation where one want to know the status of the electric operated devices. This project is the building block for the application such as wire-less controlling of any appliance that can be plugged in with local voltages i.e. 220V.
