SHAF: Framework for Smart Home Sensing and Actuation

One of fields that takes advantage of IoT is home automation. Home automation uses different types of network protocols such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee. However, existing home equipment often requires network communication enabled power plugs or devices that has a unique communication protocol specified by the company. Although these equipment have standard communication capabilities, each device is limited to communicate within a same network protocol enabled devices. In order to solve this issue between various network protocols in smart homes, we present Smart Home Automation Framework (SHAF), which is a framework that use Raspberry Pi with ZigBee as smart home central server and Arduino with ZigBee as sensor nodes to control smart home environment.