Journal of Next Generation Technology (ISSN: 2583-021X) Vol. 1, Issue 2, November 2021 www.JNxtGenTech.com 29 An Efficient Home Automation and Security System using Arduino and 1-Sheeld Farooq Sunar Mahammad 1 , Sai Shreya Sudireddy 2 1 Associate Professor, Department of CSE, Santhiram Engineering College, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India-518501. 2 Student, Department of CSE, Santhiram Engineering College, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India-518501 Email id: farooq.cse@srecnandyal.edu.in 1 , 19x51a0559@srecnandyal.edu.in 2 Article Received: 10 Sep 2021 Article Accepted: 30 Oct 2021 Article Published: 30 Nov 2021 Abstract Smart Home Automation and Security Systems gains more popularity in the last decades. Most of the Smart home appliances are controlled by Smartphone’s. Smart Home Automation and Security system makes you able to control all your house lights with your voice commands, not only controlling the lights of your houses but also provides security to the house when a stranger enters the house either when you are asleep or out of your home. It sends an Email to you saying that a stranger has entered your home and an alarm system (buzzer) will start ringing at your home so that if you are asleep you could wakeup or if you are out your neighbors could listen to the alarm and come into action. For lights functioning we need to give a voice command, the voice is detected and the operation is performed. We also uses the temperature sensors that senses the temperature of the house. If the temperature is more than 35o C then an alarm (buzzer) will ring at your home and the system will send you an email indicating that the temperature has raised higher than 35o C. In this paper we are proposing a method, with the help of this anyone can safeguard their homes from the thieves or strangers or any harmful accident, and get the appliances to operate automatically with just a single command, either in the form of text or voice. Keywords: Automation, Arduino UNO, Smart home, One shield, Home security, Security system, Lights, Alarm. I. Introduction In today's world the demand for Home Automation has increased rapidly. The Home Automation system are used to provide Comfort, Convenience, and Security to the residents. Nowadays, most home automation systems are used to provide ease to the elderly and disabled people as they reduce the human labor. Some people who do business move to different places on their work don’t check the components of their household The Smart Home Automation is more helpful in such type of situations. Then houses are controlled by Smart Home Automation automatically. Phrenic household systems assembles with the network, household components, observing the appliances [7]. This system is very helpful for monitoring the appliances of home without the presence of humans physically. So that, the humans can control the appliances virtually without any fear, even they are at long distances. Home automation system are designed and developed by using a single controller which has the ability to control and monitor the functioning of different appliances such as power plugs, lights, temperature and humidity sensors, smoke, gas and fire detectors as well as emergency and security Citation Farooq Sunar Mahammad, Sai Shreya Sudireddy.(2021). An Efficient Home Automation and Security System using Arduino and 1-Sheeld, Journal of Next Generation Technology, 1(1), 29-33.