Distance Measurement of ESP8266 for Control and Monitoring in Smart Home Application

Along with the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) projects, the
development of smart home application was also incrementally raised. The
research trends tended to implement the smart home application for monitoring
the house hold devices through automation and also for metering the power
usage independently. Therefore, the proposed research which was developed in
this paper focused for building a smart home application which could control and
monitor based on the power usage of the electronic household devices that serially
connected to the sensor node. This paper also proposed a combination of MQTT
as the messaging protocol for conserving the bandwidth usage. In term of the
project’s analysis, the main aspect was directed to investigate the feasibility of
ESP8266 as the transmission module in our application. The developed system
could successfully monitor the power usage (in Watt and Ampere) and perform
the specified action from the client node. The research result also concluded that
the ESP8266 was feasible for this kind of project