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Abstract

Home Automation Systems have started gaining greater importance. The need of cognitive support for people with physical disabilities is the need of the day. The proposed idea of an Intelligent Home Automation System (VAHAS) is a simple way to control all electrical and electronic equipments at home using one’s voice. All electrical equipments like fans, lights, television, air conditioners, etc are interfaced with the main system installed with the proposed software deployed on Linuz environment. The interfacing is brought about by RF enabled switches. The system is designed so that it responds to commands given by user. The system intelligently changes state of the equipments by activating and deactivating them without human intervention. This prototype when tested with a sample of 60 voice commands resulted in an average of 85% goodness. Extendibility is given utmost importance and customized functions can be added later.