Remote Home Management: An alternative for working at home while away

Remote home management is one of the developing areas in current technology. In this paper we described how to manage and control home appliances using mobile phone, people can use this system to do things in their home from a far place before they reach home. For instance, user may start his/her room cooler or heater so that before they reach home the condition in the room will be conducive, also appliances like washing machine and cooker can be started and if the time taken for this appliances to perform a task is known that can also be set, so that if the time elapsed the appliance will automatically switch off itself. To control an appliance the user sends a command in form of SMS from his/her mobile phone to a computer which is connected to the appliance, once the message is received the computer will send the command to a microcontroller for controlling the appliance appropriately. KeywordsRemote control; home appliances; J2ME; mobile phone; SMS; GSM; GAMMU; DTMF.