Gesture and voice control of Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IOT) is a comparatively recent concept of systems where Internet-enabled "things" in the physical world equipped with sensors, actuators and capable of interacting with the environment are connected to the Internet for monitoring and control of the "things". The concept has grown enormously during the last one and half decade. The growth of the IoT has influence on everyone and everything, and is expected to make great differences in the next decades. In this paper, an approach of combined voice and gesture control of IoT is proposed. A prototype system based on an ARM Cortex-A8 processor under embedded Linux operating system has been developed for performance study and measurement on a real-time test set-up. Test results show that the system is capable of recognizing hand gestures and voice commands on real-time frame for controlling ZigBee-enabled devices over the wireless communication channel.