Home Automation System ( HAS ) using Android for Mobile Phone

Automation of the surrounding environment of a modern human being allows increasing his wor k efficiency and comfort. There has been a significant developme nt in the area of an individual’s routine tasks and those can be automated. In the present times, we can find most o f the people clinging to their mobile phones and sm art devices throughout the day. Hence with the help of his comp anion – a mobile phone, some daily household tasks can be accomplished by personifying the use of the mobile phone. Analyzing the current smart phone market, novice mobile users are opting for Android based phones. It has b ecome a second name for a mobile phone in layman te rms. Home Automation System (HAS) has been designed for mobil e phones having Android platform to automate an 8 bit Bluetooth interfaced microcontroller which controls a number of home appliances like lights, fans, bulbs and man y more using on/off relay. This paper presents the automated app roach of controlling the devices in a household tha t could ease the tasks of using the traditional method of the switch . The most famous and efficient technology for shor t range wireless communicationBluetooth is used here to automate t he system. The HAS system for Android users is a st ep towards the ease of the tasks by controlling one to twenty four different appliances in any home environment.