Connecting and Configuring Home Appliances Pointed with a Smartphone

This study aims to develop a system that can intuitively access various connected appliances in a room. There are various home appliances in a room, each of which has configurable parameters. These are controllable with each remote controller or an IoT application. However, these controllers can be used only for a single appliance. To address this problem, we developed a system that obtains configurable information about an appliance using a smartphone. This system uses a smartphone gyro sensor to determine the position and direction of a user in the room, and allows users to instantly acquire and intuitively manipulate information about an appliance by pointing.