Arduino Home Automation Projects : Automate your Home using the powerful Arduino Platform Download PDF
Arduino Home Automation Projects : Automate your Home using the powerful Arduino Platform PDF
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About Of The Book :
This book is for all those who are willing to build their home automation systems based on Arduino.You don't need to know anything about the Arduino platform beforehand, since all the projects will be explained step-by-step with clear instructions. The only thing you need to follow the projects found in this book is basic knowledge of electronics and programming. This book is also for electronics hobbyists who want to learn more about doing projects with the Arduino platform. By doing these projects around home automation, you will learn about every aspect of the Arduino platform: how to interface sensors and actuators with Arduino, how to use wireless modules, and even how to build your own Arduino system from scratch. Finally, this book is also for people willing to learn more about the Internet of Things using Arduino. Nearly all the chapters of the book include wireless communications, and two chapters of the book are dedicated to sending some data to the cloud so that it can be monitored from anywhere.
Home automation is a topic that has been around for many years. It includes
everything that you can imagine to control and automate your home. The most
widely spread example is the alarm system of your home. Motion sensors, contact
sensors, and the central device that orchestrates your alarm system are generally
the main components of any home automation system.
There are countless devices that are available for home automation. You can buy
complete home automation devices from a lot of stores, and even get them installed
in your home. However, many of these systems are very expensive, impossible to
be customized for your own needs, and have outdated user interfaces.
On the other hand, we have the Arduino platform. Arduino is a platform that
you can use to quickly prototype electronic systems. It is now used by millions of
people around the world to build more complex systems. It is actually the perfect
platform to build home automation systems. Because of the flexibility of the Arduino
platform, we are going to see that it is easy to interface with various sensors and
actuators that are usually found in many home automation systems. It can also be
interfaced with many wireless systems, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or XBee.
In this book, we are going to see how to build home automation systems with
Arduino. We will first build systems based on commercially available Arduino
boards. For example, we are going to build a temperature sensor based on Arduino
and Bluetooth. We are also going to integrate some of these systems in an Internet of
Things perspective, by sending some data directly to a cloud service. Finally, we are
also going to see how to hack commercially available devices and build your own
home automation systems from scratch.
Contents Of The Book :
-Chapter 1: Building Wireless XBee Motion Detectors
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware configuration
Interfacing the PIR sensor with Arduino
Programming an XBee motion detector
Building a graphical interface for your XBee motion detectors
Summary
-Chapter 2: Control Lights from Your Phone or Tablet
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware configuration
Testing the relays and Wi-Fi connection
Building a graphical interface to control the relays
Testing the graphical interface
Summary
-Chapter 3: Measuring the Temperature Using Bluetooth
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware configuration
Creating the Arduino sketch
Testing the temperature and humidity sensor
Measuring the temperature and humidity remotely
Summary
-Chapter 4: Weather Station in the Cloud with Xively
Hardware and software requirements
Connecting the different components
Testing the sensors
Setting up your Xively account
Building the Arduino sketch
Log in and display data on Xively
Summary
-Chapter 5: Monitor Your Energy Consumption in the Cloud
Hardware and software requirements
Making hardware connections
Testing the project
Configuring your Xively account
Sending power consumption data to Xively
Summary
-Chapter 6: Hack a Commercial Home Automation Device
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware configuration
Controlling the device from your computer
Building a graphical interface
Summary
-Chapter 7: Build Your Own Home Automation System
Hardware and software requirements
Building an Arduino system from scratch
Testing the Arduino system
Designing a PCB for your home automation system
Fabricating the board
Designing and 3D printing a case for your home automation project
Summary
Information Of The Book :
Title: Arduino Home Automation Projects : Automate your Home using the powerful Arduino Platform.
Language: English.
Size: 11.2 Mb.
Pages: 132.
Format: PDF.
Author: Marco Schwartz.