44 1 Introduction Early in 1930s, the perspective of “Machine for Living” was proposed; in 1950s, the term “Automated Home” emerged; nowadays, terms such as “Digital Home”, “Intelligent Home” and “Smart Home” come forth. Smart Home integrates technologies such as computer, network, and automata to provide people an effective, comfortable, convenient and secure living environment. Supported by Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao and provided some equipment by Crestron Asia Ltd., Smart Home Laboratory of Macau University of Science and Technology began to develop smart home system from 2006. Using the interface- design software Vision Tools (VT) Pro-e and the logic- design software SIMPL Windows provided by Crestron Asia Ltd. to design interfaces and logic Implementation of a Remote Control System for Smart Home ABSTRACT:Advances in mobile communication bring great effects on people’s life styles. This paper describes the implementation of a remote control scheme, Remote Control System via Bluetooth and SMS (Short Message Service), which controls smart home in short distance and long distance, respectively. Although SMS is widely used for a variety of applications, it is not suitable for the purpose of remote control because it suffers from transmission delay, loss and lacks of confidentiality. This paper proposes a SMS-based protocol, which is designed with the mechanisms of reliable transmission and information encryption, thus it is capable of the implementation of secure and reliable control. YUAN Xiao-Chen CHEANG Chak-Fong LI Jian-Qing Faculty of Information and Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, China cissy_yuan@ieee.org, cfcheang@must.edu.mo, jqli@must.edu.mo Key words: Remote Control; Smart Home; Bluetooth; SMS relationships according to the requirements of the system, the control of smart home through wired touch panel, wireless touch panel, wall mount touch panel and webpage has been implemented successfully. In order to fight against the high cost of touch panels and the limited coverage of webpage, a new economic and convenient control scheme, the remote control system via Bluetooth and SMS, is proposed in this paper. Bluetooth [1] is a global, open, and short distance wireless communication standard with the advantages of high reliability and low cost. Nowadays, more and more Bluetooth mobile phones are available on market and most people have mobile phones, so the control system for smart home with mobile phone via Bluetooth is an economical and convenient method. SMS [2][3] , which transmits messages through GSM