DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF IoT NETWORK FOR SMART-HOME

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are connected to the internet to allow the distant monitoring and controlling of different home appliances such as lighting, heating, cooling and alarming. Smart home is the technology of Internet of Things to automate different activities at home.  This research modeled and simulated an IoT system for smart home in the department of computer science building, university of Benin, Benin-City. The system uses smart web cams, smart door, motion detector, smart fan, smart light, smoke detector, smart window, with each having their respective IP addresses, and allows these smart devices to transmit valuable information to the users. The designed smart home addresses security challenges by sending notification to the user’s smartphone whenever an intruder tries to gain access to the departmental building and also giving live feeds to the user about the environmental condition of the department. The system is also capable of addressing fire incident by automatically triggering the fire sprinkler whenever it detects about 36 percent smoke level. Cisco packet tracer simulation software was used to model and simulate the IoT network for smart home, because this new version simulator now include different IoT services used for home automation, unlike the previous software which has only networking devices. The results of the simulation indicates that when the smart devices are connected in a wireless medium, they can send and receive data via a DLC100 home gateway which can be accessed by the user on  internet enabled devices.

 

Keywords: smart home, Internet of things (IoT), simulate, automate