Aplicativo móvel para gerenciamento de dispositivos de smart home

Abstract

The development of a mobile application that manages smart home devices can be interesting for people who seek freedom and conditions to create and design their own automations. The development of this project resulted in an application that gives users conditions to control and activate lighting, sockets and locks, read data from the residence, such as temperature, humidity and rain sensors, using a connection to a Cloud server for storage and integration with hardware. For the development of the application, the creation of its own software development methodology was defined, based on the XP process with the aid of the Kanban tool. Development was divided into 4 main activities, planning, design, coding and testing. The schedule for carrying out the activities was respected, considering that the development was segmented so as not to have an overload of work. The requirements, described in user stories, describe in a simple way the information gathered according to the users' feedbacks during requirements gathering. The use of a tool as an intermediary between the Hardware and the application was thought and chosen to bring greater convenience to users, in addition to providing greater control of the equipment and greater security in not concentrating the information in the application itself, making the entire project a decentralized solution. The application does not depend on being connected directly to the device, but only to the database, making the devices work independently of each other. With the choice of using the Cloud server as a centralizer of information, the possibility became available for different smartphones with the application installed, to connect with an independent database and without interfering with other registered accounts, making the application a tool with support for multiple users.