Abstract:
With an aging population and the increasing acceptance of community-based care, there is a
growing need for electronic assistive technology to support independent living, particularly
among the elderly and persons with special needs. The voice-controlled lighting system is a
voice recognition system that aims to use the language of English to control the lighting
system of a specific room. It presents an automated approach to controlling the lights in a
household that could ease the task of using the traditional method of the switch. It therefore
uses the voice recognition Google APIs to articulate the voice of the person speaking and
effectively come up with the command that would enable it to control the lighting system of
the house.
Throughout the project design and Implementation, the use of the Arduino mega
programming tool is of much importance while at the same time incorporating the Google
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and libraries in the ultimate design of the software.
The connection between the microcontroller and the Android application is established via
Bluetooth module, a widespread wireless technology used for sharing data. A very important
consideration is the vocabulary template that includes specific words and phonemes.
In the process of design, the creation of a user aspect of the voice recognition system is
significant to control the lighting of the house by acting as a switch. The relay board and the
optoisolator systems are used to provide the required control of the lighting circuit.
Therefore, by using the system, the elderly and disabled people can easily control the lighting
system with their voice from the place that they are without the need to maneuver through
obstacles in the room.
The objectives of using voice commands to control the lighting system using the relay and
employing Bluetooth technology to send and receive commands
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were achieved and proved to be a more convenient and cheap means of switching home
lighting systems.
The study recommends that a clear set of libraries be set in the Android application to enable
diversification to Arabic, Dazaga, and other local languages. Also, it suggests that Google
Cloud Messaging be integrated to control our lighting system from the Internet as well as
introduce security-sensitive functionality on the voice application.
