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Background

Smart home devices have grown significantly in popularity lately as daily life becomes easier due to the quick technological advance. Practically everything is automated and digitally scanned. This dissertation suggests a framework for sensor information, controllers, and other datasets to facilitate numerous house-automated processes. The web of things is a technology that enables gadgets' remote management and connection. The Internet of Things idea has significantly expanded in recent years and is now employed across many industries, including medicine, smart buildings, and industrial environments. Techniques for connected wireless sensors built into the Internet allow for the worldwide connectivity of connected devices with snipping characteristics. The essential component of developing intelligent buildings is home automation wireless networking, which consists of actuators and sensor devices that communicate with one another and exchange capabilities.

The home security system is the goal of a "connected home," a concept under the IoT paradigm. Small appliances and other items can be monitored and controlled from a distance if online is accessible to consumers. Examples include light fittings that can be controlled with a cell phone app or voice commands, thermometers that can change the inside temperatures and produce power consumption data, or sophisticated irrigation facilities that can be programmed to begin at a certain time each day on a fixed monthly plan to reduce stormwater runoff. One of the biggest obstacles to the concept of intelligent, electricity dwellings and structures has been highlighted as creating a sustainable future in connected object ecosystems. Identifying the dangers associated with the usage and possible disciplinary of consumer, partnership, and finished knowledge in this environment, as well as formulating strategies for including protection mechanisms in the architecture, is not simple and necessitates extensive research.

Risk monitoring was performed on an automated home system created in an investigation comprising heavy industry entities. The web of things has been the primary subject of recent communication and information technology innovations. In the physical world, Sensor technologies are employed in many sectors and assist in enhancing the living environment. The proposed methodology uses a detector to determine whether a biological item is there or not while doing housekeeping and adjusts as necessary. Furthermore, this service offers the homeowner periodic messaging updates on how much electricity they utilize. The recommended remedy is implemented and put to the test under varying circumstances.

Based on the preceding, we invite academics to submit original research articles and review papers to the current special issue focusing on recent IoT device applications for smart home automation systems. Subthemes include, but are not limited to:
• A smart home automation technology enabled by the web of things;
• Detector blockchain sensor automated home solution;
• Virtualized automation of home strategy implementation and recent developments;
• A framework for automating smart building risk evaluation;
• Designing and building a smart device with industrial automation allowed by the Internet of everything;
• Utilising IOT for intelligent home automation and implementing this inexpensively;
• Trending approaching peripheral technology with IoT capabilities for automated smart homes;
• Safe, intelligent house automation system based on the Internet of everything;
• A home automation system that is sensible, secure, and sophisticated;
• Technology and selection for electricity home automation systems;
• Potential difficulties and obstacles in the smart home environment.

Keywords: Smart home Automation system wireless networking IoT Block chain

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