TY  - JOUR
T1  - BCI Based Home Automation using User Controlled Blinks
AU - Guun Yoo, Sang AU - Sulca, Juan AU - Murillo López,, José Luis AU - Ortíz Chicaiza, Kelvin AU - Poveda Zavala, Sebastián 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 6
SP  - 1377
EP  - 1384
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.1377.1384
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.1377.1384
KW  - Brain computer interface
KW  -BCI
KW  -home automation
KW  -Internet of Things (IoT)
KW  -smart home
KW  -MQTT
KW  -disabled people
AB  - Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a major research area, since, its applications can
improve people’s life. Even when its purpose is to facilitate daily tasks for everyone, it does not fully consider
people with disabilities. Even voice or gesture command technologies can help most of people with disabilities,
Motor Neuron Diseases (MND) patients who have lost most of their movement cannot be benefitted of such
technologies. For this reason, this research aims to design and develop a scalable BCI based home automation
system for people with movement disabilities which is easy to use and comfortable for the user. The proposed
solution gathers signals generated by voluntary eye blinks from the FP1 electrode position and classify them
on short and composed long blinks. Then, a combination of these blinks allows the user to navigate in a Graphic
User Interface (GUI) of an application created to control different devices of a smart home via.
MQTT protocol. Test results obtained in this work shows that the proposed system could be used in real life
solutions.
ER  -