Smart Home Systems: Overview and Comparative Analysis

Smart Home Systems have achieved great interest in the recent years to make people's life easier and more comfortable. Smart home system offers people to control home environment in efficient and comfortable manner. Technological advancement in recent years resulted in producing a large number of smart and sophisticated systems which promoted smart living technology. This paper presents complete analysis of various smart and intelligent home automation systems. Comparative analysis of existing smart home system has been made which provides a clear idea of the pros and cons of the existing systems. Working principle of different types of smart home systems such as Dual Tone Multi Frequency based, Global System for Mobile based, voice recognition based, Zigbee based, Bluetooth based, Internet and Wi-fi based, and Gesture based smart home systems has been studied. Comments according to different aspects and features have been made for the studied smart home systems which enable users to select suitable technology according to budget and needs.