A SMART HOME CONTROL AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE DISABLED

The recent advancements in the field of embedded systems enables us to develop a reliable smart home system for easier access to home appliances. The aim is to provide a seamless integration of various methods of controlling appliances in the smart home aiding the physically challenged. This can be done by means of a non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), text messaging and a personalized web page. This paper proposes a novel method wherein the physically challenged people can control the appliances by using Emotiv EPOC headset which reads the Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded from the brain activity and communicates with an Arduino board. The proposed system has been built with the help of an Ethernet shield which runs a webserver, and a GSM shield which communicates with the Arduino through text messaging (SMS).