A Gesture Controlled and Cost Effective - Home Automation System

Abstract

This paper presents a secure and reliable home automation system in order to make everyone’s life simpler and fulfil the needs of the disabled or the elderly. The paper proposes a system based on efficient smart watch that uses arduino microcontroller which is embedded with a WIFI module and enables us to control a number of home appliances such as lights, fans and others using on/off relay. In our work, the appliances need not to be smart beforehand as arduino would be externally connected to them such that the system designed would be controlled by gestures i.e. users can control the working of the appliances by moving their hand in upward or downward direction over the screen. This system is comparatively efficient and cost effective than other proposed systems in terms of scalability and reliability. Also, the proposed system has been thoroughly tested and verified in various environmental conditions.

Design and Implementation of a Smart Prosthetic Hand

“…With the help of this technology, a completely dependent person can become somewhat autonomous, which will benefit both their physical and mental health [26]. The project's specific objective was to make controlling assistive robots more natural and to have them carry out various duties more quickly and efficiently via voice instructions [25]. To accurately duplicate only a few of the motions available with the human hand, it is best to design for a very simple prosthetic hand [24].…”