An IOT by information retrieval approach: Smart lights controlled using WiFi

In recent years, the rapid development of Internet of Technology (IOT) makes the intelligent home come true as people expect. The intelligent home system creates the more comfortable, safer, humane and intelligent living environment. It can resolve the problems facing by the people who have busy schedules and get a very less amount of time to spend at home which is increasing rapidly around the world. For the solution of this problem, user can depend on the automated machines and gadgets like smart phones. These smart gadgets are using cloud computing which sends and receives signal o the cloud. The data that is of our use can be fetched by matching some key values using the concept of information retrieval. The key objective of this paper is to create a full-fledged application which could let user to operate the lights of their house from any remote location. The user have a list of options to select which light is to be on and when. The only requirement is to have working wifi at home to which the lights are connected. The is developed in Lua Language by using the Esplorer Integrated Development Environment (IDE). We have also used the micro controller chip ESP 8266 to build our board.