Internet of Things Based Smart Home with Intel Edison

In order to help individuals to automate the home, Internet of Things based smart home concept has been introduced. It controls utility based power systems and other required systems inside the house with minimum requirement of an internet and a web browser and simplifies life. The main aim of Internet of Things based Smart Home is to help people to make their life easy with an automation which helps to reduce their time and energy. It operates the basic home appliances as per user requirement without human interference. This will reduce human efforts to control the things physically every time. In this paper we have proposed a system for Smart Home using Intel Edison board that provides a facility to control home appliances remotely from anywhere in the world.