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Begna Asirat Negash, Yanqiu Che, & Jing Mi. (2024). Review on Construction of Voice Controlled Home Automation Control System using Bluetooth for Elder and Physically Disable People of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Intelligent Systems & Robotic Mechanics, 1(1), 1–5. https://ojs.sgsci.org/journals/isrm/article/view/222
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2024

Review on Construction of Voice Controlled Home Automation Control System using Bluetooth for Elder and Physically Disable People of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The most common challenges for disabled and elderly people worldwide are ON Television, lamps, the Internet, Refrigerators, Fans, and other home appliances. To solve this problem the researcher constructs a Voice-controlled home automation control system. In this research, a voice-controlled home automation system has been presented for elderly and disabled people. The proposed system has the main components of a Voice recognition system. The main object of this system is to control home appliances using voice commands. Based on the received signal from the disabled person at the Bluetooth receiver related to the appliances, desired switching operations are performed. The desired system is a low-power and low-cost system. Home automation appliances are one of the primary growing industries that may change the way people live. Typical Bluetooth (wireless) home automation system allows one person to control household appliances from a centralized control unit which is wireless. These appliances always have to be specially designed to be compatible with each other and with the control unit for most commercially available home automation systems. The designed system can be incorporated as a single portable unit and allows one to wirelessly control lights, air conditioners, fans, security cameras, television sets, electronic doors, computer systems, amplifiers, etc., and turn ON or OFF any appliance that is plugged into a wall outlet, get the status of different sensors and take decision accordingly. The system is movable and designed in a way that is easy to install, configure, run, and maintain. The problem lies with the situation of the elderly or disabled people, who cannot usually help themselves to move around and might need external assistance. People who live alone additionally need a supporting hand at home. Therefore a voice-managed domestic automation appliance system is designed, so that the users can carry out certain jobs with just the use of their voices, additionally, the system is designed to have a hand-held device (remote) so that the elderly or disabled person can easily speak their commands, and otherwise they would have to walk over to the microphone to speak.

Home automation; voice control; smart home; bluetooth module

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Supporting Agencies

  1. Funding: Not applicable.