HISTORY
BILL OF MATERIALS
PRINCIPLE
STEPS FOR MAKING
STEP 1: MAKING THE PROTOTYPE OF HOUSE
STEP 2: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
STEP 3: WRITING THE CODE
STEP 4: MAKING APP
STEP 5: TESTING

Published September 4, 2019 © GPL3+

Home Automation with Arduino Uno and SmartEdge Agile

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Home Automation with Arduino Uno and SmartEdge Agile

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO

Avnet SmartEdge Agile Brainium

LED (generic)

DC motor (generic)

NXP Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit

DHT11 Temperature & Humidity Sensor (4 pins)

LDR, 5 Mohm

Breadboard (generic)

Male/Female Jumper Wires

Male/Male Jumper Wires

HC-05 Bluetooth Module

ControlEverything.com 4-CHANNEL RELAY CONTROLLER FOR I2C

Software apps and online services

Avnet brainium

MIT App Inventor 2

Arduino IDE

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Soldering iron (generic)

Solder Wire, Lead Free

Solder Flux, Soldering

Wire Stripper & Cutter, 30-20 AWG / 0.25-0.81mm Capacity Wires

thermocol

Story

Main video

HISTORY

I started this project as a school project. Actually, I wanted to create something that would benefit the society. Therefore, I started examining what are the different problems that are exiting in the world that could be solved. Then, I found out that "Misuse of Electricity" and "Shortage of electricity" are some of the problems faced by the people of India. Therefore, I designed this system for the above mentioned purpose. I made it without any nxp rapid iot rapid prototyping kit and Smart Edge Agile but here I am using them.

Introduction Video

BILL OF MATERIALS

The materials used in my project are given below along with their respective price (all price are in INR per piece);

Breadboard - INR 60
Four Channel Relay Module- INR 130
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic distance sensor - INR 80
Arduino Uno - INR 1500
Generic Jumper wire Male to Male - INR 5 (about 50-70 required)
Generic Jumper wire Male to Female - INR 5 (about 50-70 required)
9v Power Adapter - INR 100
HC - 05 BLUETOOTH MODULE - INR 250

Therefore, The total Cost of my project is around INR 4000

1 / 7 • BREADBOARD

PRINCIPLE

The working principle of this whole system is that:

1)The ultrasonic sensor will detect human presence

2) Relay module will control all the appliances but it will not be connected to sockets as there may be a need to turn it on when there are no people in a room

3) Smart Edge will take various sensors values display via Brainium server since this kit has sensor with high accuracy

*The relay module will be installed between the appliances and switch so to run the appliances there will an automated switch (run by Arduino Uno) and a normal manual switch

** If there is a need to run any appliance without human presence it can be achieved for 2 hrs via a customized app.

***To run the fan ( or ac) there will be two conditions first the human presence and second the temperature should be high enough(22 degree Celsius)

****To run the light there will be two conditions first the human presence and second the light intensity should be high enough (4.5 analog value)

You may refer to the video for more details.

STEPS FOR MAKING

STEP 1: MAKING THE PROTOTYPE OF HOUSE

You can use any kind of model for this purpose, but the condition is that you need to have a house made of any material withoutanyroof. I am enclosing the pictures of my (made) house.

1 / 7 • THE HOUSE

STEP 2: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS

The Smart Edge Agile needs no wiring while the remaining components may be wired as follows:

Schematics

STEP 3: WRITING THE CODE:

The Code for Arduino IDE is given below in the attachment part and for more details please see the comments. A detailed description of the app is given in the the video in the last video in testing part.

STEP 4: MAKING APP

I used the MIT App Inventor to make the app. For detailed description please refer to the second video in the principle part. Here are the screenshots of the blocks:

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STEP 5: TESTING

You may proceed for testing the prototype by following the video as under.

The most important part of project that displays the code and working.

Code

CODE

/***************** INCLUDING LIBRARIES****************/
#include <SoftwareSerial.h> // SoftwareSerial library
#include <DHT.h>    //DHT library
#include <DHT_U.h>
/******************* DEFINING PINS********************/
#define r1l 7    
#define r2l 8
#define r1f 5
#define r2f 6 
#define ldr A0
#define Trig1 10
#define Echo1 11 
#define dhtPin 9
#define Trig2 12
#define Echo2 13
#define DHTTYPE DHT11
/************************* INTITIATING VARIABLES****************/
int distance2 = 0;
int duration2 = 0;
int distance1= 0;
int ldrv = 0;
int duration1=0;
char bt =0;
int h=0;
int t = 0;
/************************* INTITIATING DHT SENSOR****************/
DHT dht(dhtPin, DHTTYPE);
/******************** Intitiating softwareSerial ************/
SoftwareSerial btSerial(3,2);
// void setup
void setup()
{
  btSerial.begin(9600);
  Serial.begin(9600);
  dht.begin();
  pinMode (r1l,OUTPUT);
  pinMode(r1f,OUTPUT);
  pinMode (r2f,OUTPUT);
  pinMode (r2l,OUTPUT);
  pinMode (Trig1,OUTPUT);
  pinMode (Echo1,INPUT);
  pinMode (Trig2,OUTPUT);
  pinMode (Echo2,INPUT);
  pinMode (dhtPin,INPUT);
  pinMode(ldr,INPUT);
  
}
void loop()
{
  Measure();
  delay(25);
  CheckAction(); 
}


void Measure()
{ 
  // Measuring Temperature and Humidity
    h = dht.readHumidity();
    t = dht.readTemperature();
     if (isnan(h) || isnan(t)) 
     {
     h = 0;
     t = 0;
     return;
     }
     Serial.println("humidity = ");
      Serial.println(h);
  Serial.println("temperature = ");
       Serial.println(t);
  // Measuring Ultrasonic distance
    

 digitalWrite(Trig1, LOW); 
 delayMicroseconds(2); 
 digitalWrite(Trig1, HIGH);
 delayMicroseconds(10); 
 digitalWrite(Trig1, LOW);
 duration1 = pulseIn(Echo1, HIGH);
 distance1 = duration1/58.2;
 Serial.print("ROOM 1 = ");
 Serial.println(distance2);
 
 digitalWrite(Trig2, LOW); 
 delayMicroseconds(2); 
 digitalWrite(Trig2, HIGH);
 delayMicroseconds(10); 
 digitalWrite(Trig2, LOW);
 duration2 = pulseIn(Echo1, HIGH);
 distance2 = duration2/58.2;
 Serial.print("ROOM 2 = ");
 Serial.println(distance2);
 
delay(10);

 ldrv= analogRead(ldr);
 Serial.println("ldr = ");
 Serial.println(ldrv);
delay(10);
 bt = btSerial.read();
 Serial.print("bt =");
 Serial.println(bt);

 delay(50);
 }


 void CheckAction()
 {  
   // checking fans ......
   if(t>22 && h>40)
    {
       // checking room 1 fans ......    
       if (distance1 > 5)
         digitalWrite(r1f,HIGH);
       else  
         digitalWrite(r1f,LOW);
         
       // checking room 2 fans .......
         if (distance2 > 5)
         digitalWrite(r2f,HIGH);
       else  
         digitalWrite(r2f,LOW);
    }

    // checking lights ......
    if(ldrv > 4.5)
      {
          // checking room 1 lights ......    
       if (distance1 > 5)
         digitalWrite(r1l,HIGH);
       else  
         digitalWrite(r1l,LOW);
         
       // checking room 2 lights .......
         if (distance2 > 5)
         digitalWrite(r2l,HIGH);
       else  
         digitalWrite(r2l,LOW); 
      }
        
       //Checking Bluetooth..........
     if (bt == '0')
{
 digitalWrite(r1l,HIGH);
  digitalWrite(r1f,HIGH);  // ROOM 1 APPLIANCES ON
   Serial.print('a');
}
    if (bt == '1')
    {   
      Serial.print('b');
  digitalWrite(r1f,LOW);   // ROOM 1 APLLIANCES OFF
  digitalWrite(r1l,LOW);
    }

    if (bt == '2')
{
 digitalWrite(r2l,HIGH);
  digitalWrite(r2f,HIGH);  // ROOM 2 APPLIANCES ON
   Serial.print('c');
}   


    if (bt == '3')
{ 
  Serial.print('d');
  digitalWrite(r2f,LOW);  // ROOM 2 APPLIANCES OFF 
  digitalWrite(r2l,LOW);
}
 }

Credits

AYUSHMAN SAHA

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Home Automation with Arduino Uno and SmartEdge Agile