Control your smart home with an autonomously mobile smartphone

Since smart homes will be more and more popular in the future, the needs of finding a friendly and intelligent interface between users and home environments are growing. However, conventional interfaces have reached their limits. Therefore, this paper describes a new concept of interface in a home environment. This work is characterized by building a smart robot: a smart phone is used as the brain, and a robot car is used as the body. With this system, a person will be allowed to carry the robot's brain when she is out of their home. Thus, the brain can not only be a normal smart phone, but will also monitor different parameters such as the temperature at home. On the other hand, when the person is at home, she will be allowed to put their phones on the robot car. By invoking the system, she will have an assist-robot. This assist-robot will act as a new interface in the smart home by following the person and recognizing the person's voice commands for taking notes, reading notes and controlling smart home devices.

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