Introduction

In this chapter, we are going to see how to apply what we have learned so far in this book to the home automation field. We are going to use the Arduino board to build several home automation projects that will all be accessible from anywhere in the world and communicating with cloud services.

We are, for example, going to see how to control a coffee machine, how to open your garage door remotely, and how to detect smoke in your home and be alerted immediately. At the end of this chapter, we are going to see how to combine several of those projects, for example, to build a cloud thermostat.