Home electrical appliance control application using Zigbex Ubiquitous Sensor Network

Abstract

This paper presents the research on the application of Hanback Back Electronics Zigbex Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) test-bed implementation for home electrical appliance control using wireless communication. A simulation on a home wireless network for electrical appliance control applications is simulated and presented. It is a physical simulator that consists of hardware and software programmed that can replace wired home appliance control. Research has proved that the appliance control was successful but they are still being implemented in the wired communications networks. The setup of hardware communications in this research consists of a server, personal computer, a base node and another node as the actuator part. This application's key technique is programmed using the TinyOS programming code and also the nesC programming. The result of the study shows that Zigbex wireless sensor network could be an alternative method to control the home electrical appliance with the support of graphical user interface (GUI). This project has also produced a new programming code to control the hardware which has been shown in controlling the simulated system. This code will be discussed in detail in methodology section.