One of the topics sudden interests gaining popularity day by day is that of home because of its innumerous advantages. One can achieve home automation by simply connecting home appliance and electrical devices to the internet or cloud. The reason for this surge in demand of network enabled home automation is reaching the zenith in recent days for its simplicity and comparable affordability. Platforms based on cloud computing help to connect to the things surrounding everyone so that one can find it easy to access anything and everything at any time and place in a user friendly manner using custom defined portals. Hence, cloud acts as a front end to access IoT. In addition to that, with the never-ending growth of the Internet and its applications, there is much potential and scope for remote access and control and monitoring of such network enabled appliances. Even so, the exciting opportunities to increase the connectivity and relationship of home devices for home automation purposes to the internet are yet to be.