A Smart Switch to Connect and Disconnect Electrical Devices at Home by Using Internet

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a firmware for a Smart Switch, which can control the on-off of any electrical device at home by using internet. The Smart Switch is connected to internet via Wi-Fi TM , through a computer, smartphone, tablet or any device with internet access. In order to perform this connection it is necessary to write the IP pre-programmed into the Smart Switch in a web browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) with the purpose to load the Smart Switch server, which will open a configuration page to write the data of the user's network. Then, the user will select in automatic mode the network, the security type, and the user must have written a passphrase. Once these information is uploaded and saved, it is necessary to restart the Smart Switch in order to get access to internet, from which the user can control the Smart Switch simply sending a number one or a number zero to switch the electrical device, this process is done in principle via the internet, but it can be done without the use of internet, i.e. by using a local network.

IotSan

“…While conceivably, IoT is here to stay, current research studies on security/safety of IoT systems are limited in two fronts. First, they focus on individual components of IoT systems: there are papers on the security of communication protocols [25,32,41,58,71,76], firmware of devices [1,16,22,73,83,92], platforms [29,52], and smart apps [28,29,52,85]. Very few efforts have taken a holistic perspective of an IoT system.…”