Home Automation

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Smart devices around the house
• Sensors, controllers and actuators
• Comfort, safety and saving energy

🎬 Animated demo

Walk through a smart home where lights and fans react to you.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Smart home wish list
• Home automation map of your house

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Why 230 V is dangerous
• MCBs and earthing
• Safe practice with low voltage

🎬 Animated demo

See how an MCB trips to cut power in a fault.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Home safety checklist
• Safe low-voltage model

🎯 What you’ll learn

• How a relay works
• Small signal, big load
• Relay modules

🎬 Animated demo

A 5 V signal clicks a relay and a big lamp turns on.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Relay-controlled lamp (low voltage)
• Two-channel relay board test

🎯 What you’ll learn

• On/off and dimming
• Automatic lights with sensors
• Colour lights

🎬 Animated demo

Walk in and the light turns on; walk out and it fades off.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Motion-activated room light
• Colour mood lamp

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Fan speeds
• Auto fan with temperature
• Energy-saving fans

🎬 Animated demo

As the room heats up the fan speeds up by itself.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Temperature-controlled fan
• Fan speed from phone

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Motion, door, light and gas sensors
• Where to place sensors
• Combining sensor rules

🎬 Animated demo

Different sensors light up as a person moves through the house.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Door-open reminder
• Kitchen gas alarm model

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Servo and motor-driven doors
• Sensing people or cars
• Safety stops

🎬 Animated demo

A car arrives and the gate opens, then closes after it passes.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Automatic gate model
• Smart curtain opener

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Building an app with widgets
• Bluetooth and WiFi control
• Showing status on the phone

🎬 Animated demo

Tap a Light widget and the model house lights up.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Phone-controlled room
• Status dashboard app

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Voice commands
• Clear command words
• Voice for accessibility

🎬 Animated demo

Say “fan on” and the fan starts spinning.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Voice-controlled lamp
• Voice commands for grandparents

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Good-morning and good-night scenes
• Timers and schedules
• Automations with rules

🎬 Animated demo

Tap “Good Night” and lights, fan and door all change together.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Morning scene
• Timer-based garden light

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Where homes waste energy
• Auto-off when empty
• Measuring power use

🎬 Animated demo

Lights left on in an empty room switch themselves off.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Empty-room auto-off
• Home energy audit

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Plan rooms and devices
• Build, connect and program
• Demo your smart home

🎬 Animated demo

A full model house responds to sensors, app and voice.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Cardboard smart house
• Smart room kit (final project)