It is a natural fact that human beings desire comfort, luxury and sumptuousness. Nothing is more important to man than his own comfort and convenience. Every human being, who is able to satisfy his basic needs such as food, shelter and can avail of other necessities of life such as basic education and healthcare facilities; he looks forward to enjoying luxuries and wants to achieve maximum comfort in life. It is human nature to seek both physical and mental comfort in all aspects of life and not invest one's brains and bran. Everyone wants to spend an easy and comfortable life and that is why all the scientific progress and technological innovation of the present day revolves around facilitating human beings by reducing their physical strain and mental lethargy. The maximum time of every human being is spent at home and it is the place to which the human being is most attached (emotionally). Science has somehow achieved its goal of comforting human beings by all means, through the concept of home automation, i.e. providing comfort and tranquility in the home. The advent of artificial intelligence has induced human-like behavior in machines and made them capable of generating voluntary responses similar to human intelligence by virtue of embedded mini computers and functionality support software; it reduces human effort to operate home appliances and this is what home automation is all about. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Home automation is a very vast field with dozens and dozens of advanced equipment and gadgets invented to date, which together have brought a great evolution in human life. Technological progress and innovative scientific techniques have been applied to the domestic life of human beings, generating great results. All those machines that were operated manually in the past are now managed via computerized systems. The best Internet accessibility systems have promoted the concept of remote control and accessibility of devices from distant locations. Here too my project is based on home automation. I chose to build an automated "lock" with remote accessibility which is introduced using Blynk (software) and Raspberry (a tiny computing device which is best suited for such projects as it is really cheap and is integrated with great features); The easy to apply and use "software and hardware tools" made this (academic) engineering project really easy to complete. Engineering students mostly look forward to choosing those academic projects that help them refine their theoretical knowledge and help them see the real-time reality and application of what they have learned through academia. I chose to work on a very common concept nowadays, namely "Home Automation"; which is fully in vogue in almost every part of the world, regardless of its location on the world map. The concept of home automation has been adopted by both developed and developing countries. My automated "lock" project will help me gain an in-depth understanding of both the hardware and software related to this project. There are several aspects of this project that make it interesting for me as an engineering student. In my opinion, the automated lock is more than an automated device as it also falls into the category of security devices, which increases its importance as an academic project. Other than that, the main reason I adopted this project is that it's easy to make with.