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Smart Home using Blynk App Based On IOT

M.Jaya lakshmi1 , C.Sadia Sameen2 , D.Maneesha3 , G.Dharani4 , K.Farhat Mubeena5
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Associate Dean,2,3,4,5Department of ECE
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Department of ECE,
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Ravindra College of Engineering for Women, Kurnool,Andhra Pradesh,India.

Abstract—By the virtue of blooming automation industry and remotely accessed and controlled from any PC, mobile or
wireless connectivity, all the devices within the home can be laptop. That can drastically decrease energy consumption and
connected. Today’s World is moving to digitalization where get better the living environment as well as enhancing the
everything is made easy and comfortable for people i.e. Young indoor safety .
youth as well as senior citizen. Smart Automated House Along with the quick developments in technology, the
Application using IOT (Internet of Thing)is a system where devices in the recent past are becoming smarter. The real-
basic house facility can be handled by device from any place world appliances are being prepared with intellect and
such as ON and Off of Light, Fan. One can handle all this computing capability so that they can configure themselves
things with help of device ESP8266, Android Application, accordingly. Sensors attached to embedded devices along
Internet Connection. This paper include functionality of node with the low power wireless connectivity can facilitate to
esp8266 are connected with either of above given house remotely monitor and control the devices. This forms an
application like fan, light, water pump, gardening with help of integral component of Internet of Things (IoT) network. IoT
coding and hosting online with web server. All the functionality also helps in transferring of data from sensors through
is handled by Mobile App created in android application, from wireless network, achieving recognition and informational
which house application are controlled with help of internet. exchange in open computing network. Things that we are
This paper is clarifying that monitoring of circuit devices using in our daily life are becoming smart with the current
through wireless using aurdino and controlling using App technologies but it isn’t sufficient until we connect them to
Blynk. According to requirement of need one can connect act with the dynamic environment and in addition to make
multiple device like sensors, appliance and many more till 8. their own inter-network, that is, machine-to-machine
communication . The Objects like electronics devices,
softwares, sensors, actuators, home appliances and vehicles
Keywords—Wireless Control, Internet of Things(IoT),
are connected to a wireless network. Internet of Things is
Home Automation, ESP8266, Blynk, Mobile App.
considered as a wireless network of these objects and they
can exchange data through light weight protocols like
I. INTRODUCTION MQTT, CoAP etc. There are so many types of radio modules
IoT (internet of things) in recent years have become lifestyle out of which GSM, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc. are
of human being with great potential[7]. Even it is focusing on common. However, owing to the surging number of WiFi
different task that are requirement of human intelligence. In hotspots and range sufficient to perform the required control
today’s scenario IoT has opened doors to that cover up all and monitoring, WiFi is chosen as the mode of
requirements of human dealings in their daily life. Example like communication in the prototype and the devices are
purchasing of goods, monitoring of resources and remotely controlled through Blynk App implemented using ESP8266 .
control them from any corner of the world. Think about a world
were personal refrigerator will provide you list of all your stuff II. LITERATURE REVIEW
required for upcoming few days base on your present utilization
Smart cities based on IoT [3] technology are becoming
in it. Even envisage your fridge is interactive with Home
more and more popular. Initial goal of IoT was to connect
automation refers to remotely monitoring the conditions of
physical devices to internet. Then, Web of Things (WoT)
home and performing the required actuation. Through home
become prominent to easily connect sensors to the web, get
automation, household devices such as TV, light bulb, fan, etc.
the data to and from the web that has been created by the
are assigned a unique address and are connected through a
devices .
common home gateway. These can be

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The READY4 Smart Cities aims at dropping energy the devices are to be
utilization and CO2 emission in the cities making use of
ontologies and associated data. The project is actually intended
to produce and supply energy-related data such as climatic,
pollution, traffic, activity etc. But it doesn’t encompass vital
IoT domains like healthcare, smart farm etc. and neither does it
mention need to incorporate a reasoning engine to analyze IoT
data.
The STAR-CITY project is deployed in four cities: Dublin,
Bologna, Miami and Rio. They use semantic web technologies
to identify and forecast road traffic Jams. As per the design,
they have used six heterogeneous sources: road weather
conditions, weather information, Dublin bus stream, social
media feeds, road works and maintenance, and city events.
They use Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules such as
heavy traffic flow. The project is mainly focused on the traffic
Figure 1 IoT Architecture [5]
investigation.
The City Pulse project is intended for public parking space controlled and monitored via smart phones.
availability calculation, real time travel planner, air pollution
counter-measures, and opting efficient routes and public IV. RELATED WORK
transfer . The project is aimed on large-scale analysis and real-
The system is divided into two major parts: software and
time processing.
hardware design. Hardware configuration involves arranging
The Smart Santander project deployed 20,000 sensors microprocessor, microcontroller, sensors and actuators whereas
measuring hotness, moisture, particles, CO and NO2 for software portion encloses programming that is written and
monitoring parks and gardens irrigation, outdoor parking are uploaded in each of the microcontrollers and microprocessor.
organization, traffic intensity monitoring, and smart metering . The system consists of microcontroller connected to sensors
and electrical devices that are to be monitored and controlled.
III. IOT ARCHITECTURE This section shows how different hardware components are set
up. The specifications and information regarding various
The physical layer consists of the devices that are to be components used in this system are descriptively explicate
controlled. The sensors to sense the surrounding environmental below.
conditions are also connected to this layer. The data link layer
consists of IoT [3] gateway router (here, we have used aurdino The main aim of Smart Home is useful in order to provide
as router gateway), device manager and various batter energy utilization, efficiency, comfort and to provide
communication protocols. This layer links the home appliances better true security. Nowadays Smart Home automation is
to the web-server or cloud via Wi-Fi communication. more used in India because of the cost and the easily getting
Raspberry pi is used as private server to store the sensor data devices. Also, devices for the automation are easily available.
and also it sends data to the end users upon request. In this The main objective here is to present a Small IOT system
system, raspberry pi falls under database/server layer. The designed and created by utilizing WLAN network based on
application and presentation layer consist of web protocol. This ESP8266. The System is able to control home electronics
layer constitutes either designing of a webpage for accessing devices by the mobile phone via internet. Results from test of
the devices connected to the perception layer via PC or laptop the system show proper control and monitoring functions can
computer, or building an android or iOS mobile application if be performed from a device linked to a network.

A. Arduino
Arduino is an open-source platform used for building
electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical
programmable circuit board (often referred to as
a microcontroller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated
Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used
to write and upload computer code to the physical board.
Features of aurdino are as follows:

Table I Configuration of Arduino

Type ATmega328P microcontroller

CPU 16 MHz

Memory 32KB FLASH,1KB EEPROM

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Figure 3 Blynk App working Diagram[10]

2KB SRAM

Input 6 Analog input pins B. Blynk

14 Digital input/output pins Blynk is an internet of things platform which allows
Power 5 V DC controlling electronic devices remotely using its iOS and
Modulation Pulse-width modulation android apps. It provides dashboard by which user can create
graphic interface using different widgets. Blynk can also store
and display sensor data. Blynk provides libraries for most of the
popular hardware platforms like Arduino, ESP826 , Raspberry
pi, SparkFun etc.

In the Blynk three most important components are App,

Server and Libraries. App can help to create the interface.
Server is responsible for all the communication between app
and the hardwires. And Libraries enables communication for
hardware with the server using commands.
Arduino is the main components in the above diagram. It is
connected with external power source with cable. Next
important component is relay. Here we use 5V DC relay as
switch. Using the relay, we can convert DC power to AC.
Relay is connected with aurdino and bulb. Using the blynk app
we can operate the all devices using the blynk server. In blynk
app different button are added, using those buttons we can
on/off the switch.

Figure 2 Arduino Pin Diagram[2]

Figure 4 Schematic Plan of the Project

C. User Interface
The graphical interfaces in smart phones and tablets are
designed in the form of android and iOS applications by
putting buttons, graph-plotter, LCD and sensor-value display.
The user can simply download the app, log in and then
monitor and control her entire home appliances. The interface
should enable the user to look at the device status and regulate
them.

V. WORKING OF THE SYSTEM

The system consists of three isolated sub-systems: first
subsystem consisting of Blynk App module to get the status of
the equipment, second sub-system you can attach multiple
sensors DHT11 temperature sensor to measure temperature,
PIR sensor to detect motion and ultrasonic sensor to measure
the distance, and the third sub- system consisting of a master
microcontroller which function as the central coordinator that
communicates with other subsystems via Wi-Fi. The master
microcontrollers also interfaced with a relay module to control
the appliance sat the site. The sensor data are fetched to the
user interface facilitated by smart phones or tablets from the
various sensors using a aurdino as the private server.

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Basically, control of turning ON or OFF the whole system

is at owner’s hand. As the system gets powered up, it searches
for the preset SSID (Service Set Identifier) and connects
automatically to the Internet otherwise remains offline and
performs the automated-controlling job that doesn’t require
commands from the owner.
Sensors accumulate disparate ambient-conditions and
transmit them to the Microcontroller which processes the data
transmitted by each sensor separately and then concurrently
send the acquired data to the web server. The readings of each
sensor can be accessed by the user from any place at any time.
Additionally, all the sensors data are logged per second for
future data analysis purpose.
The system can operate in two modes automatic mode and
manual mode. When it is set at automatic mode, all the home
appliances like fan, heaters etc. are automated to operate as
per the surrounding environmental conditions sensed by the
sensors. On the other hand, when it is set at manual mode, the
user can locally or remotely monitor and control each of the
home appliances via her smart phone or from her office
desktop PC. To recapitulate, the surveillance and control of
entire household appliances is under her finger tip.
Beyond auto-manual mode of operation, some of the
Figure 5 Screenshots showing appliance switch
activities like regular water level (in water-storage tank)
inspection and turning ON or OFF the water pump, ringing of Blynk app with custom designed layout and buttons
alarms when detecting human-presence at the door which can was used to facilitate monitoring and controlling various
also be used for security by installing the motion detectors on connected things.
home or office so as to alert owner remotely. The user doesn’t
need to switch these devices at regular interval as they are self The screenshots of the results of the designed system
run under the commands of the microcontroller continuously obtained on android application are shown in Figure 5.
round the clock.
By pressing virtual button on the smart phone, the home
Similarly, some of the alert signals and warnings like appliances can be controlled from any remote location. One
house on fire, gas leakage, intruder’s detection etc. are advantage of this app is that it can be shared within all the
wirelessly conveyed and notified about the situation to the family members of the house. When one-member switches ON
house owner via e-mail and phone notification. Using GPS, or OFF an appliance, the action will be apparent to all other
the owner can track and locate her car at any moment from members sharing the app. Similarly, real-time as well as
anywhere. To sum up, IOT provides greater extent of security- historical data of measurements of temperature, humidity, GPS
physical as well psychological. location, distance -measure etc. can be obtained from anywhere
using the app.
VI. RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS Further, this system can be employed in many places such
Relay module system connected to the home appliances to as banks, hospitals, laboratories, traffic stations, residential
be controlled and linked to one another via Wi-Fi using apartments, house, streets, poultry farms, greenhouse etc. In a
Arduino with ESP8266 Module. For user interface, IOS nutshell, this system can be used at multiple fields and areas in
version order to make them operate smartly

VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORKS

This paper has introduced a home management system.
This paper is mainly focused on overcoming everyday
problems faced by the people in world where regular power
cut-off, unmanaged urbanization, lack of manpower in
agriculture and farming, etc are blatantly evident. Our
prototypical system is applicable to real-time home security,
automation, monitoring and controlling of remote systems.
This implementation provides an intelligent, comfortable
and energy efficient home automation system. It also assists the
old and differently abled persons to control the appliances in
their home in a better and easier way.

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