This document summarizes an academic paper that presents an intelligent home monitoring system created using LabVIEW software. The system can monitor temperature, humidity, lighting, fire/burglar alarms, gas density and includes infrared sensors for security in a house. It connects to the internet to allow remote monitoring and control of house equipment from anywhere. The system controls internal/external lighting, fire/burglar alarms, temperature and can power switch rooms. It uses LabVIEW as the main controller and interfaces with sensors, alarms and equipment via data acquisition hardware.
1. Chetana Sarode, Prof.Mr.H.S.Thakar / International Journal of Engineering Research and
Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com
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Intelligent Home Monitoring System
Chetana Sarode, Prof.Mr.H.S.Thakar
Department of Electronics &telecommunication, SKNCOE
Department of Electronics &telecommunication, SKNCOE
ABSTRACT
Intelligent home system is the use of expected. Smart Home Systems are also known as
advanced computer technology, network “Computer Homes”, “Electronic Houses”,
communication technology and automatic control “Intelligent Homes”,
technology, which combines the relevant
subsystem into a whole control system concluding “Interactive Homes”, “Home Informatics”
the family communication, family equipment and “Home Telematics”.In early days, people want
automatic control, family safety precautions. A to know family condition at any place, what's more,
sample house environment monitor and control when their home come problem, they will soon
system that is one branch of the Smart home is receive relevant information, so that remote
addressed in this paper. The system is based on monitoring becomes a very important function for
the Lab VIEW software and can act as a security smart home system. But use wire transmission way
guard of the home. The system can monitor the can't satisfy people's need for remote monitoring,
temperature, humidity, lighting, fire & burglar however, using LabVIEW software communication
alarm, gas density of the house and have infrared is able to overcome the disadvantages of wire
sensor to guarantees the family security. The transmission, can get rid of geographical constraints,
system also has internet connection to monitor thus realize data transmitted over a long distance.
and control the house equipment’s from This paper presents the LABVIEW
anywhere in the world. This seminar presents the software based smart house system which control
hardware implementation of a multiplatform the internal lighting, external lighting, fire alarm,
control system for house automation using burglar alarm, and temperature Systems in the
LabVIEW. Such system is named smart house house. LABVIEW is a development system for
systems. The approach combines hardware and industrial, experimental, and educational
software technologies. measurement and automation applications based on
graphical programming, in contrast to textual
Keywords - Smart House, LabVIEW, programming-however, textual programming is
PIC16F877A, Data Acquisition Card, Remote supported in Lab VIEW. LAB VIEW has a large
Control. number of functions for numerical analysis and
design and visualization of data. Smart house
I. INTRODUCTION controlled by Lab VIEW that controls main system.
Smart home system is the use of advanced The main system consists of five parts; these five
computer technology, network communication parts are connected to Lab VIEW software as the
technology and automatic control technology, which main controller for these systems. The first
combines the relevant subsystem into a whole subsystem in smart house project is security systems
control system concluding the family that include fire alarm system used in announcing
communication, family equipment automatic the outbreak of a fire and work to extinguish the
control, family safety precautions. As development fire, and burglar alarm system that signals the
of the electronic technology and communication occurrence of a burglary. The second subsystem is
technology, people have the high requirements for lighting system that include the internal lighting of
daily life and work, the smart home is more and the house, and the ceil lighting outside the house.
more widely applied. Smart House is not a new term The third subsystem is remote control system for
for science society but is still far more away from house controlling. The fourth subsystem is
people’s vision and audition. We can easily control temperature system for air conditioner controlling.
home’s mechanical systems and appliances over The fifth subsystem is Main house power switching
your cellular phone or Internet, and the lighting in system to switch the power supply for all rooms in
your home can be set to save your money when you the house.
leave the room. The Internet provides even more
incredible access to information and services. We II. LITERATURE REVIEW
believe that the Internet will become the next We can easily control home’s mechanical
essential utility in the home. Similar to the use of systems and appliances over your cellular phone or
water, electricity and gas, the Internet will become Internet, and the lighting in your home can be set to
common and save your money when you leave the room. The
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Internet provides even more incredible access to discusses technique earlier in literature for smart
information and services. We believe that the home system using LabVIEW.
Internet will become the next essential utility in the
home. Lots of advanced techniques have been III. DESIGN
proposed for smart home system. The different The smart house has two interfaces,
technologies that could provide for smart home computer interfacing, and remote control unit
communication are X10, Insteon, Zigbee and Z- interfacing. Computer device that provided with Lab
Wave. X10, developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics VIEW software is the main controller unit for all
of Glenrothes, Scotland, allows compatible products systems in the house. It receives data from house
to talk to each other remotely over the already sensors, process information and updates data for
existing electrical wires of a home. The first "home the difference systems, and transmit controlling
computer" was an experimental system in 1966. The signal to house systems and switching output
Smart House Project was initiated in the early devices. Lab VIEW makes the ability to monitor the
1980’s as a project of the National Research Centre important operations in the system to the users in
of the National Association of Home Builders order to be informed of the changes in the system.
(NAHB) with the cooperation of a collection of Users can also control the difference systems
major industrial partners. There have been several abilities, and chose the best system that required. In
smart home projects undertaken by individuals over addition to Lab VIEW interface for the smart house,
the last few years. The most popular of these has remote control interfacing is available to control
been Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ residence on some applications in the house, and it is connected
Mercer Island east of Seattle. The European Lab VIEW software for other applications. Fig 1
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has shows the block diagram of the smart house
divided M2M intelligent home systems into three designed. Smart House consists of two type of
parts including area networks, communication controlling systems, which enable the user to control
networks and applications. Fig 1. Shows an area and monitor each system. It create database files
network is composed of data end points, which are which can store each orders in smart house, and can
usually sensors, compact microprocessors, be scheduler the start and end times for each system
subscriber identification module (SIM) cards and in house.
smart meters. Sensor data (usually an alert) is sent to
microprocessors via communication circuit.
Microprocessors then deliver these alerts to a radio
module, which converts the instructions into packets
and sends them over the communication network
[4].
Figure 2 Smart House Block Diagram
The electrical devices are connected to
LabVIEW software as the main controller for these
Figure 1 . ETSI M2M Network Architecture systems. The purpose of data acquisition is to
measure an electrical or physical phenomenon such
The Telecommunications Industries voltage, temperature, current, pressure and sound.
Association (TIA), has established the working PC-based data acquisition uses a combination of
group TR 50 for Smart Device Communication modular hardware, application software, and a
(SDC). The European Alliance (ESNA) and computer to take measurements. The Lab VIEW
National Institute of Standards and Technology software will control the internal lighting, external
(NIST) are other organizations which are specifying lighting, fire alarm, burglar alarm, and in the house.
standards for M2M.This section of the paper LABVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual
Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is easy
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platform and development environment for a visual to create small applications. This is a benefit on one
programming language from National Instruments. side but there is also a certain danger of
PIR motion sensor is use to detect the internal underestimating the expertise needed for good
lighting system of house. The LM35 has an quality programming. Fig.2 shows LabVIEW based
advantage over linear temperature sensors calibrated control intelligent home system.
in ° Kelvin, so LM35 is use for heat detector and
LDR (light dependent resistor) is use for smoke
detector. Remote control is one of two interfacing
device used in smart house application. The remote
control is used to make some operation in the
system by connection with LabVIEW software. it is
used to control and to switches the load in every
room in the house using the room unit receiver in
every room.
IV. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
Here Software LabVIEW and Hardware
DAQ unit and ARM7 is used to communicate each
other.
1. LABVIEW
Lab VIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual
Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a
platform and development environment for a visual Figure 3. Lab VIEW Control of Smart House
programming language from National Instruments.
Originally released for the Apple Macintosh in
1986, Lab VIEW is commonly used for data
acquisition, instrument control, and industrial
automation on a variety of platforms including
Microsoft Windows, various flavours of UNIX,
Linux, and Mac OS. The programming language
used in Lab VIEW, is a dataflow language.
Execution is determined by the structure of a
graphical block diagram. LABVIEW is a
development system for industrial, experimental,
and educational measurement and automation
applications based on graphical program in contrast
to textual programming -however, textual Figure 4 LabVIEW Program, Login Monitor
programming is supported in LABVIEW. LAB Screen
VIEW now has several toolkits and modules which
brings the LABVIEW to the same level of Lab VIEW Support for thousands of
functionality as MATLAB and Simulink in analysis hardware devices, including: Scientific instruments,
and design in the areas of control, signal processing, Data acquisition devices, Sensors, Cameras, Motors
system identification, mathematics, and simulation. and actuators, Familiar programming model for all
Lab VIEW ties the creation of user interfaces (called hardware devices, Portable code that supports
front panels) into the development cycle. Lab VIEW several deployment targets Lab VIEW makes the
programs/subroutines are called virtual instruments process of integrating hardware much easier by
(VIs). Each VI has three components: using a consistent programming approach no matter
Block diagram what hardware you are using[7]. The system also is
Connector pane connected to the internet to monitor and control the
Front panel house equipment’s from anywhere in the world
However, the front panel can also serve as using Lab VIEW. Monitor screen is designed using
a programmatic interface. This implies each VI can LabVIEW allows monitoring to all parts of smart
be easily tested before being embedded as a house system that connected with LabVIEW via
subroutine into a larger program The graphical Data Acquisition Card. It has two login; one for
approach also allows non-programmers to build monitor access and the other for setting access as
programs by simply dragging and dropping virtual shown in Figure 4.
representations of the lab equipment with which
they are already familiar. The Lab VIEW
programming environment, with the included
examples and the documentation, makes it simpler
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2. EMBEDDED ARM7 PROCESSOR MODULE
Embedded ARM7 module contains
features like Processor – NXP ARM7 LPC2378,
72MHz core speed maximum, Internal High-speed
Flash:512Kbytes, SRAM:32Kbytes, 16Kbyte
Ethernet SRAM, On board 512Kbit EEPROM,
General purpose 2.54, Plug-in style enables modular
product design,SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, CAN and
GPIO lines available on pin-headers ,RTC with
Battery Backup, Onboard RS232 driver interface
lines available on pin-headers, MicroSD connector
to handle up to 2Gbyte, Mini-USB Connector for
USB2.0 device interface and optional 5volts power
supply input for the CPU module, JTAG interface
and SAM-BA ISP programming pins on pin-
headers.
Figure 5. Initializing DAQ Process
The first step to using the DAQ is to
instruct the operating system to communicate with
it.o do this use the Measurement and Automation
Explorer (MAX) MAX can be opened from
LabVIEW by selecting Tools >> Measurement &
Automation Explorer. Plug in the USB 6008 to the
computer USB port.Open up the Measurement &
Automation Explorer (MAX).Once MAX has
opened, expand the Devices and Interfaces folder.
After this, expand the Ni-DAQmx devices folder.
Figure 4. Embedded ARM7 module Note under the NI-DAQmx Devices the NI USB-
6008: “Dev 1”
3. DAQ UNIT
DAQ is act as interfacing between V. CONCLUSION
computer and outside world i.e between LabVIEW Smart home can bring intelligent feelings
software and electrical appliances. It is used to for People's Daily life, Smart home applications will
measure an electrical or physical phenomenon such be more and more widely. In the future, Smart home
as voltage, current, temperature,pressure or sound. will have more rich content, but not limited to the
PC based daq uses a combination of modular home appliances and the home environment control.
hardware, application software and computer to take The diversified smart home of The Internet of things
measurement.DAQ is process of acquiring signal will become the trend of smart home.The main
from real world, digitizing the signal, analyze and objective of this paper is to design and implement a
presenting data. While selecting DAQ unit control and monitor system for smart house. Smart
determine the physical properties that need to be house system consists of many systems that
measured now and in the future, Select transducers, controlled by LabVIEW software as the main
Determine if any signal conditioning is required, the controlling system in this paper. Also, the smart
allowable analog-to-digital conversion error, the house system was supported by remote control
sample rate required to accurately capture the system as a sub controlling system. The system also
physical properties, Choose the DAQ device that is connected to the internet to monitor and control
will meet the requirements.fig 5 shows the the house equipment’s from anywhere in the world
initializing procedure in LabVIEW window. using LabVIEW.
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First name-Ms. Chetana Sarode, ME, S.K.N.C.O.E.
Pune.
Second name- Prof. Mr. H. S. Thakar, ME,
S.K.N.C.O.E Pune.
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