Home automation system using Raspberry Pi

• Main Author: Wang, Yangyang
• Other Authors: Lim Meng Hiot
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68318
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Nowadays, home automation has become more and more popular. For its ability to give people access to control their home appliances from a mobile device anywhere in the world. In this project, we use the Raspberry Pi to build a smart system. There’re many interesting projects can be carry out using a Raspberry Pi, such as to build a wire-less extender, a Gameboy, a simple robot, make a phone, or we can create a web server with it. Goal for this project is to design and build a home automation system using the raspberry Pi. User can use web browser to control home appliances, such as to turn on the light, heating system, coffee machine… From anywhere in the world. Through out this project, student will gain knowledge in areas such as understand Raspberry Pi’s background; Raspberry Pi’s command lines; how to control GPIO pins; how to use PuTTY to remotely access the Raspberry Pi; understand web server Apache and PHP; understand WinSCP and how to transfer files with it; have the knowledge of web interface design, understand HTML5, CSS, PHP and JavaScript and be able to do electrical wiring and mechanical modification for the equipment required in the project.