A step towards Home Automation using IOT

The aim of this paper is to develop home automation system based on IOT using Wi-Fi based microcontroller. As scope of technology is widening every day, we are making our tech advance in mobile, robotics, Machine Learning, then why an exception for our home. Today's houses are gradually transferring from ordinary/human's input-based appliances to smart/IOT enabled appliances to be controlled remotely. At Present, existing home automation systems use technology that is limited to only that device. So, in a nutshell, we are making our devices IOT enabled not our homes. As far as this paper is concerned, NodeMCU (ESP8266) microcontroller along with Relays is used to control electrical switches remotely from the server which is built on Node.js. User can control switches using a Web Application after authenticating.