Home and building automation through social networks

Abstract

People are using social networks for every aspect of their lives, and what this project does is to take advantage of it to develop a scalable platform in which the user could monitor their home, interacting with a virtual assistant running on a server listening to all events fired by the user. Therefore this paper propose a different use of social networks, to manage your home or building through them. The entire platform has been tested with multiple users, scenarios, and also it has been migrated to various frameworks and programming languages to ensure portability.