Open Source Home Automation
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Home Automation with Intel Galileo
This book is for anyone who wants to learn Intel Galileo for home automation and cross-platform software development. No knowledge of programming with Intel Galileo is assumed, but knowledge of the C programming language is essential.
Open Source Home Automation
About This Book Start into the world of Open Source Home Automation with an introduction to the Home Assistant platform. Dive into soldering your own smart home sensors for measuring temperature and humidity inside your rooms and attach it to a powerful jet free and open home automation system. Work through simple yet insightful examples that will get you up and running with home automation, Home Assistant and soldering your own tailor made home automation sensors. Who This Book Is For This book is for home automation enthusiasts, makers and tinkerers that are willing to take a step towards soldering and programming their own home automation sensors. The examples given within this book are easy to follow and just require just a very basic level of programming skills. What You Will Learn Introduction into the free and Open Source Home Assistant software How to run your own Home Automation server How to host a Home Assistant server in Docker Configure various sensors and actuators Configure automation scripts to control your home Send notifications with Telegram How to solder a sensor on top of a cheap ESP8266 board How to attach your own sensors to Home Assistant In Detail Controlling all the home electronic appliances automatically or from remote is a fascinating topic. Various home automation vendors are offering all kinds of sensors and actuators for controlling your home. Control your lights, heating, pool pump or door cam, there are unlimited possibilities. By diving into the world of Open Source home automation systems you will break out of the vendor locked into the world of smart home in order to gain a lot of flexibility. This book also shows you how to solder your own little sensors by using the 5$ low cost ESP8266 control board.
Towards Energy Smart Homes
This book exemplifies how smart buildings have a crucial role to play for the future of energy. The book investigates what already exists in regards to technologies, approaches and solutions both with a scientific and technological point of view. The authors cover solutions for mirroring and tracing human activities, optimal strategies to configure home settings, and generating explanations and persuasive dashboards to get occupants better committed in their home energy managements. Solutions are adapted from the fields of Internet of Things, physical modeling, optimization, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence. Practical applications are given throughout.