Leveraging Internet of Things to Revolutionize Homes for Smart Cities

In recent years the life style of people has been improved a lot. Now a day's there is lots of talk about smart cities but to really leave in smart city our homes should be smart also. The aim of this research work is to build such a system where we not only monitor and control home from local Wi-Fi network but we should able to do this from any corner of the world. This can be implemented by Internet of Things where things talk to things and according to conditions appropriate actions can be implemented without human interaction. In this work for security of the home premises we have added Passive Infrared (PIR) motion sensor, on detection of movement system captures the image and stores that image directly to webserver. To automate lighting control in the home, LDR base circuit is placed which controls the lighting in the house or office building according to the weather lighting condition. Temperature in this smart home is also maintained by constant monitoring of temperature. The other main benefit of all this system is that the server side of the smart home is implemented using dynamic IP which saves annual expenditure on the static IP for the server.