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Home automation system achieved great popularity in the last decades and it increases the comfort and quality of life. In this paper an overview of current and emerging home automation systems is discussed. Nowadays most home automation systems consist of a smart-phone and micro-controller. A smart phone application is used to control and monitor the home appliances using different type of communication techniques. In this paper the working principle of different type of wireless communication techniques such as Zig-Bee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ocean and GSM are studied and their features are compared with each other so the users can choose their own choice of technology to build home automation system. Home automation system is growing rapidly, they are used to provide comfort, convenience, quality of life and security for residents. Nowadays, most home automation systems are used to provide ease to elderly and disabled people and they reduce the human labor in the production of services and goods. Home automation system can be designed and developed by using a single controller which has the ability to control and monitor different interconnected appliances such as power plugs, lights, temperature and humidity sensors, smoke, gas and fire detectors as well as emergency and security systems One of the greatest advantage of home automation system is that it can be controlled and managed easily from an array of devices such as smart-phone, tablet, desktop and laptop.