Abstract: “The major design challenge of home automation is to choose best standard for controlling devices in existing home environments without any changes in infrastructure. In recent years Zigbee was the promising technology for home automation. But, nowadays there are some other standards which give their best for controlling home devices. This paper presents an overview of different wireless communication standards by comparing their main features in terms of various metrics such as range, frequency band, maximum node count, security, and cost”

Keywords: Wireless technologies, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Enocean, Insteon, Wavenis, UWB