Innovative Approach to Smart Home Automation: Leveraging Hand Gesture Recognition for Enhanced User Interface and Control

International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering

© 2025 by SSRG - IJECE Journal

Volume 12 Issue 4

Year of Publication : 2025

Authors : Abhishek Madankar, Minal Patil, Anshul Pardhi, Manoj Lahudkar, Shravani Duragkar, Shital Telrande

10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V12I4P107

How to Cite?

Abhishek Madankar, Minal Patil, Anshul Pardhi, Manoj Lahudkar, Shravani Duragkar, Shital Telrande, "Innovative Approach to Smart Home Automation: Leveraging Hand Gesture Recognition for Enhanced User Interface and Control," SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, vol. 12,  no. 4, pp. 75-83, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V12I4P107

Abstract:

Gestures are a revolutionary assignment geared toward revolutionizing the use of electronic gadgets in human-machine communication. Harnessing the strength of gestures, this assignment seeks to create simple and bendy interactions that put off the need for conventional body manipulation. With computer ideas and superior predictive and machine-gaining knowledge of techniques, the gadget acknowledges and accurately translates a wide variety of gestures. This gesture can then be mapped to important commands, permitting clients to control electronic devices in a fantastically simple way. This technology of power programs is available in all sizes, from clever homes to industrial structures. Providing a fingerless and green manner to interact with devices, this application has the ability to enhance existence and productivity in a fulfilling and obvious manner. Future mastering guidelines encompass exploring greater complex famous gestures, integrating voice commands, and offering greater complex real-time structures for customers to study quite simply.

Keywords:

Pi Camera, Raspberry Pi 4, Relay, VNC.

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