A demand for smart things is drastically increased in daily-life. The IoT (Internet of Things) is one of the major components that provides facility to interact with IoT enabled devices. In this work, we propose secure and efficient smart home system that enable to protect homes from theft or unusual activities and parallel saves power.Our system is developed by exploiting the features of IoT that facilitates us to monitor an IoT enabled home from anywhere anytime over the Internet when data are stored in the cloud. This system uses a motion detector to detect a moving object from the environment where the system is deployed. The proposed system is evaluated using real-time deployment at KU campus considering 30 rooms for 60 days and found really useful in termsof safeness from any theft and saving power in comparison to existing systems.

IoT; smart home; android smart phone; home automation; motion sensor;