- Alaa Majeed Raheem¹, Hussein Abdul Abbas Hilal² , Mustafa Abbas Shwan³, Muntather Abbas Faisal⁴, Hussein Hazem Abdul Qawi ⁵, Zahraa Ahmed Hussein⁶
- 1,2,3,4,5&6 Department of Medical Physics and Radiotherapy, Technical Engineering College, Sawa University, Almuthana, Iraq
- FAR Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (FARJMS)
- DOI
This paper describes the design and experimental testing of a cost-effective smart home automation prototype proposed for educational and engineering training purposes. The prototype is created based on many environmental and security sensors, such as motion detection, temperature and humidity monitoring, gas leakage detection, and real-time video surveillance, for which an ESP32 microcontroller as the backbone is used for the central processing and the communication system. In this article, the aim is to analyze the working of a proposed smart home system, test its response, and reliability over laboratory environment. Several testing samples were carried out to assess the sensor accuracy, event-activated automation, wireless communication stability, and remote control performance via mobile applications. The system performed consistently on average and response times for alert-based events did not exceed 1 second and communication reliability was higher than 98% through Wi-Fi. Environmental sensors displayed deviations within acceptable engineering tolerances when compared to commercial reference devices. The obtained result reveals that the designed prototype provides practical and easy to use educational application for the hands-on training embedded-system, IoT communication and home automation algorithms. Although the system is usable for academic and non-critical monitoring purposes
