Arduino Home Automation Projects

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Arduino Home Automation Projects : Automate your Home using the powerful Arduino Platform

Introduction

Arduino Home Automation Projects

    The Arduino platform is used by more than one million people around the world to prototype electronic systems. It is the perfect platform to use to build home automation systems, as it allows you to build your own motion sensors, control lamps remotely, and control preexisting home automation devices. The Arduino platform also allows you to build wireless home automation systems using well-known technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

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    This book shows you how to use the Arduino tiny microboard to live like a king. The book covers several projects you can perform using the Arduino platform. The first few projects comprise the basics of home automation, such as building a wireless motion sensor, controlling a lamp remotely, and building a Bluetooth temperature sensor. Then, this book dives into the Internet of Things, helping you get a clear understanding of how to send measured data to the cloud. The book will wrap up by showing you how to communicate and control an existing device and build your own home automation system.

What You Will Learn

• Connect home automation sensors to the Arduino platform
• Use the XBee technology to build low-power wireless motion sensors
• Interface a relay with Arduino to control devices in your home
• Utilize Wi-Fi to control a lamp remotely
• Employ Bluetooth and Arduino to measure the temperature remotely
• Send energy consumption data to the cloud
• Hack an existing home automation device using Arduino

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Table Of Contents 

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

Control Lights from Your Phone or Tablet 

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware configuration 

Test the relays and Wi-Fi connection 

Building a graphical interface to control the relays

Testing the graphical interface 

Measuring the Temperature Using Bluetooth

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware configuration 

Creating the Arduino sketchTesting the temperature and humidity sensor 

Measure the temperature and humidity remotely

Weather Station in the Cloud with Xively 

Hardware and software requirements 

Connecting the different components Testing the sensors 

Setting up your Xively account

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