Virtual Switchboard: Switchless Home Appliances using Leap Motion

In recent years there has been growing interest in virtual reality applications due to its gaining popularity at various fields. We used the leap as motion controller which is a USB interface for connection to PC, MAC, IOS and Android Devices. Its purpose is to capture the high resolution tracking of users hand gestures. The aim is to design and support an integrated hardware and software solution to operate home appliances. It is an efficient and real time model which recognizes the user hand gestures as the primary input. The data from the leap will be acquired and transmitted to the computer application for authentication and gesture detection to operate devices. A Leap Motion controller obtains descriptive information of hand gestures by tracking the finger movements in digital format and gives few key points associated with each gesture. These key points are then further used for training and gesture recognition. Gesture recognition is a field in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. In our implementation, we have written codes to interpret the hand gestures captured by the leap and transmit them in order to control devices.