In recent years, there has been considerable attention towards the development of IoT in different fields especially in smart homes as it provides reliability, efficiency, wide- range control, and information analysis.
Smart home systems achieved great popularity in the last decades as they increase the comfort and quality of life. Most smart home systems are controlled by smartphones and microcontrollers. A smartphone application is used to control and monitor home functions using wireless communication techniques. We explore the concept of smart home with the integration of IoT services and cloud computing, by embedding intelligence into sensors and actuators, networking of smart things using the corresponding technology, facilitating interactions with smart things using cloud computing for easy access in different locations, increasing computation power, storage space and improving data exchange efficiency. In this chapter, we present a composition of three components to build a robust approach to an advanced smart home concept and implementation.