Abstract. With the development of the Internet of Things and mobile Internet, smart home appeared a new opportunity, the development of wireless communication, ad-hoc network technique, high reliable connection, large scale networking, repair itself as a new developing direction of smart home. This paper discussed hardware and software design of the embedded smart home control system based on GPRS transmission network and Zigbee technology. This paper also expounds the composition structure and working principle of the system. Through the Zigbee technology to realize the ad-hoc network among the main controller and Zigbee terminal nodes, realizes the branch node information acquisition and command transmission. Through the GPRS network mobile client can realize information collection and remote monitoring of household facilities.