IoT Solution for Rental Houses

November 23, 2021

The tourism growth led to an increase of short-term accommodation. However, the management of a property may be time consuming and difficult to achieve. This paper proposes a domotic system to assist people in performing house management tasks, integrating a smart lock, utility monitoring and appliance control in a smart home system. The proposed solution uses various smart devices that are connected to sensors and actuators, being able to monitor and control a house’s environment. Those devices use a Wi-Fi network to communicate to a home server, which is responsible for processing the data. Additionally, it offers a web interface to users, and connects to a central server that allows the management of multiple rental houses from a single point. A prototype was developed that uses ESP8266 boards as smart devices. For the home server a Raspberry Pi was chosen. The system was tested, in which users could send commands through the Raspberry Pi to the ESP nodes, in order to change an environment’s property. Additionally, the introduction of a cache allowed a reduction of the message processing time by one eighth, when compared to the time it took for the server to access its internal storage. Using the prototype, it was possible to conclude that the proposed system provides significant assis￾tance in the management of short-term accommodation businesses.

Authors in the community:

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  Nuno Afonso Rebelo Patrício Freire dos Santos

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Supervisors of this institution:

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  Alberto Manuel Ramos da Cunha

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electrical-engineering-electronic-engineering-information-engineering - Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

eng - English

Instituto Superior Técnico