Final Year Project: PC Control Automation Of Home Appliances

Why would you want to use a PC to automate your home in a country where power is scarce?

its a frigging project for christ sake,  the guy didnt say he wants to install it in his house ,  he just wants to write a project on the topic ,  the fact that there is no light doesnt mean   u shouldnt learn such things ,  he might not live in Nigeria for ever and one day he might go somewhere where the knowledge would be needed

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/control_e_appliances.aspx

http://www.pcremotecontrol.com/

hope that helps ,

good luck

,  and should not be limited by your physical circumstance some of the bigest inventions were made when people doubted their usefullness to the society ,  u write project about what u have a passion for, the guy obviously has a passion for what he wants to wtite about,  that passion would drive him to greater invention ,  allowing the situation in Nigeria to dampen his reason and spirit would be a recipe for failure and under achivement ,  damn! tell me people didnt try to this courage u when u wanted to build Nairaland at a time when most Nigerians didnt have light or Internet connection or Computer or were computer literate or even had an idea about what a forum is or how it is used,  but u did and the rest is history ,  the young mahns project is very relivant in this world which is a global village,  don't limit what is useful to the boundary of Nigeria or the cloud of our limited infrastructure ,  he just might have sumtin up his up in his head which the whole world would benefit ,

Thank God u don't decide such things , and u sure do have a Broad* mind for someone that create sumtin as awesome as Nairaland ,  am sure if 5 years ago someone had post about needed help on how to create ATM machines in Nigeria your reponse would have been  thank God u didnt have a say in that too cus we would still have been in the dark ages of banking , 

i for one would love to control my tv,lights,pumping machine etc from my pc ,  and if there is no light i would swicth to manual ,  but wait minute home appliances even need light to work ,  so i guess if we are to follow your superior way of reasonings then we should not even buy home appliances ,  in a country where there is no lights abi , thank  God  we  know better , 

@geebow work on your project bro ,  and if u are able to develop it ,  am sure a lot of people wouldnt mind having it in their homes ,  if appliancies need lights to work ,  its not s sin for sumtin that could control them from a computer to also need light ,  if the former is widly used in Nigera then the latter too would be embraced

Brother,
I must confess to u and please don't take it personal but your project is senseless!!! and don't even think u might need it here in the western world. PC Control???`Home Appliances??? Oh God have mercy!!! who gave u that project to write on? Wht does he expect from u? setup some kind of Radio, TV, Microwave, Washing Machine, DVD Player, etc all in one Control Software? Or probabaly write some kind of imaginary story on how it might work??? Wht exactly do u want to do??? Place "LAN" or maybe "WLAN" on your TV to your PC (which is definitely not possible) Turn your Computer ON to switch ON/OFF your TV, Radio or probably increase the volume  . Dude, if thts really your Final year project, i must tell u right now that u've definitely visited the wrong school. And also tell whoever gave u that project to get a new job. You should be writing projects on Power Supply, ways to generate cheap, sufficient and efficient power supply for selfuse or Nationwide, not "PC Control Automation Of Home Appliances". and its not about being useful, its about not making sense!!! I'm sorry to have taken it this far but its senseless.

 Dude, Wht do u need "smart home" for when u've got no electricity to power it. Why are u speaking from imagination??? The schools in Nigeria only teach u the theoritical, unrealistic and imaginative parts of IT. Of course i know there are smart homes. But i don't have to turn my Computer ON to turn my TV OFF when my TV  is less than 1m away from me. we still have problems of Power supply and its not getting any better. We say we have Mechatronical engineers but no has built a simple AC Generator. Why??? because they only f**kin read what they don't understand. Dude, I'm an Informatics student here in Germany. I have seen Hi-Tech at its best!!! No developed country jokes with its power supply because thts where IT started from and thts where it should start from. ok??? Nowatimes Generators are being driven by Atomic Energy which has a high Efficiency rate (power output/ power input). Nigeria's major problem is still Power and ths wht should be written on not f**ckin "PC Control Automation Of Home Appliances". How much energy do u need turn ON/OFF your TV??? I'm pretty sure the cyber-cafe u are browsing right now have their Generator turned on behind. An average Nigerian can't even think of buying a car and u want "Smart home"!!! If there is anyone living in stone age then its u "bigrovar"!!!



You can as well tell me your Microwave, fridge, and bulb is connected to your lappy  . NiGgA, u can tell that to my Dog he might believe u. Tell me sth New.

man check my post ,  if u have the time , please check all my post here ,  i have never felt the urge to call someone with a contrary view to mine daft ,  but urs is the closest i ever came to doing that ,  u feel because i connect my pc to an external monitor,  and i have external speakers connected , that its sooo impossibe that only your Dog can believe me ,   all i can say is that don't rule out the fact that some Dogs do out smart their owners ,  and the fact that u don't believe something is possible ,  shows more of the limitation of your exposure than anything else ,  like i said read more ,  go out more ,  u really need to broaden your horizon ,   in your sUPERIOR way of thinking ,  because power suppler is bad ,  then every project in schools should be about how to create cheap power alternatives ,  hmmm every one of them ,   and no one should write about such things as "irrelivant as PC HOME AUTOMATION" now if u hear some where that a Nigerian developed a device that could be uised to automate a house and its being hailed as a break through ,  u would say ,  "mehn we have tanlent in this country" this guy had a talent and he wants to see it through ,  all u can do is push him down and call it useless just becus your hrizon is very limited,  when i was in secondary school i know a guy who was working on ho w to make a robot ,  and he made a primitive one that uses a remote ,  it was made of old cans of inseticide, rotor and sone improvised materials ,  it was very primitive but he did and made it work ,  well the guy never went to sci class becus he was not encouraged ,  he stutied art ,  today i have not see him since we left secondary sch,  and i have not heard about him since,  perphaps if Nigerians encourage our own science brians ,  that guy would not have gone into oblivion

Mehn am surprised people still reason this way ,  Power is a Constant problem in Nig,  Its been a problem since i was born ,  i have never experienced a 3 day in my whole life without a power cut,  yet that didnt stop me and millions of Nigerians from Buying ,T.v set,DVDs,PC, fridges,mircrowaves, the very thing that the young man here hope to control with his pc uses light ,  did u get that let me repeat ,  THE VERY THING You CONTROL WITH UR PC USES LIGHT,  if the power problem did stop me from buying a tv,dvd,fridge and all ,  it wount stop me using my pc to control them when eventaually nepa brings light and there work ,  go to alaba the electronic business is a boom business in nigeria ,  so is the computer market ,  no sooner do i put a post of a lappy for sale do i strat getting offers on phone ,  people are living their lives and have known how to adapt with nepa ,  having a system to coontrol basic appliances is not an out of this world possibility in ngeria ,  i know people who connect their dstv to their lappy and use it to record movies , its not for everybody ,  definitely not for the poor ,  but that does not mean it is not relivant ,  its not a crime to be rich, so what if he hopes to setup a company that provide that can of service in Nig do are u saying he wont suceed,  oh well i guess we see things differently

Are u f**kin crazy? do u know how many people that earn their living working for me there in Lagos?  u sound disgusting i must confess!!   Do know how much i spend on Electric Generator monthly there to keep my business going? just because i have to. and u are f**kin talkin about smart homes being built by nigerians

You employ me???  . Are u employed??? with the peanuts u make,  I can only say thanks i'm self-employed. I take care of myself and my extended family and we are all satisfied!


  Why do Nigerians prefer electrical appliances or cars made in Germany to Chinese products or maybe "Nigerian products"? You talk as if Nigeria has any products or services it exports worldwide relating to IT or maybe "Smart homes". The software and so called "Smarthomes" used in Banks, NGOs,homes etc werent made in Nigeria. The only thing Nigeria can boast of right now are Half-educated and arrogant people like u (oldie), Armed robbers, corrupt bastards in government, Yahoo boyz alias 419, etc.

I wont even advise anyone to work for u thts if u are self-employed.

~dOnT~tEaCh~A~pIg~To~SiNg~

the poster asked for help in his project & not 'reasons' why he shuldnt do his project! I hope somebody understands that !!

u shouldnt be suprised ,  this is what happens when mothers let their kids play around with computers too much , 

Sharing your opinion with a 22yr old is wht u call "arguing"? Thats one of the same problem we still have in Nigeria ("Oldies" are allowed to share opinions and younger ones just have to wait until they get as stupid as "Oldies"). Discrimination when it comes to age.

I don't know wht u(oldie) do for living, but u certainly must be a Top Bank Manager in Nigeria to earn as much as i do. People as old as you are make their living working for me.

Its a typical Nigerian saying when one starts thinking cowardly "No need to waste my time"

your opinion speaks for u! You are just like the "younger ones" still being childish.