Smart home has gained popularity not only as a luxury but also due to the numerous advantages. It is especially useful for senior citizens and children with disabilities. In this work, home automation is achieved using gesture for controlling appliances. Gesture recognition is an area
in which lot of research and innovations are blooming. This paper discusses the development of a wearable device which captures hand gestures. The wearable device uses accelerometer and gyroscopes to sense and capture tilting, rotation and acceleration of the hand movement. Four different
hand gestures are captured using this wearable device and machine learning algorithm namely Support Vector Machine has been used for classification of gestures to control ON/OFF of appliances.
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