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Efficient Android Software Development Using MIT App Inventor 2 for Bluetooth-Based Smart Home

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In this paper, a specific Android application for Bluetooth-based smart home system is presented. The aim of this research is to design, develop, and evaluate a user interface prototype for the smart home system. The designed mobile App is named by MINDS-apps V1, which is expected to be able to perform three tasks, (1) controlling by soft-control mode, i.e. an RGB ambient lamp and Fan; (2) controlling by hard-control, i.e. a generic power switch, curtain, door lock, and (3) monitoring purpose, i.e. humidity and temperature sensor. In total, there are six types of smart home devices used for the experiment. Using MIT App Inventor 2, the design process is divided into two phases: user interface design using the Components Designer and implementation of the programming logic using the Blocks Editor. Once the design is finished, the application is then compiled into debuggable APK file with 2.23 MB in size, after which it is tested on six aforementioned devices. The MINDS-apps is able to operate even in the low-end mobile device with 1 gigabyte of random access memory (RAM) and Bluetooth version 2.1.

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Acknowledgements

This work is one part of the big project entitled “Perangkat Internet-of-Things untuk Sistem Rumah Cerdas” that was funded by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic Indonesia for Desentralisasi scheme with Number of grant: 009/SP2H/LT/DRPM/IV/2017. We would like to thanks to Mr. Maulana Yusuf Fathany for his support in this work.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Bandung, 40116, Indonesia

    Trio Adiono

  2. University Center of Excellence on Microelectronics, ITB, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia

    Sinantya Feranti Anindya & Syifaul Fuada

  3. Department of Function Control Systems, Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Tokyo, Japan

    Khilda Afifah

  4. FUSI Global Technology, Ltd, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia

    Irfan Gani Purwanda

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Adiono, T., Anindya, S.F., Fuada, S. et al. Efficient Android Software Development Using MIT App Inventor 2 for Bluetooth-Based Smart Home. Wireless Pers Commun 105, 233–256 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-6110-x

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