Voice operated home automation system based on Kinect sensor

Abstract

Control of home appliances using smart technologies which is also known as home automation is a popular (industrial) research area. Many of these systems use remote controlling such as IR sensing, networking, Arduino programing etc. whereas our system uses voice controlling. Proposed system is designed to enable centralize controlling over distant household appliances. In this prototype, we built an interface demonstrating voice control using Kinect V2 as voice receiver and trained a computer system to identify set of voice commands. Then a circuit was constructed using Arduino and light bulbs that mimics actual appliances. We measured accuracy of our system. It is more than 95% when the distance between user and Kinect sensor is 4 m and when there is about 53 dB noise. Hence, the proposed method can be efficiently used with a Kinect V2 for voice controlling.