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Home Automation with Intel Galileo

You're reading from   Home Automation with Intel Galileo Create thrilling and intricate home automation projects using Intel Galileo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785285776
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Onur Dundar Onur Dundar
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Intel Galileo 2. Getting Started with Home Automation Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Energy Management with Environmental and Electrical Sensors 4. Energy Management with Light Sensors and Extending Use Cases 5. Home Monitoring with Common Security Sensors 6. Home Surveillance and Extending Security Use Cases 7. Building Applications and Customizing Linux for Home Automation 8. Extending Use Cases Index

An overview of home automation technologies

We just spoke about some technologies used in home automation. In this section, we will go through the details of some popular technologies used in home automation, software ecosystems, and open source projects.

Delving into home automation protocols

Numerous technologies exist for home automation, but covering all of them is not possible in this book, so we will only talk about some of the popular ones. These are the ones you will see in many retail stores or on the Internet.

Note

There are devices for home automation that use BLE and Wi-Fi technology as well. Since they are well known and widely used technologies, we will not mention them here.

X10

X10 is a machine-to-machine communication system which was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics Ltd. in Glenrothes, Scotland, and was the first communication protocol used for home appliances. Since wireless technologies were not as advanced as they are today, it was designed to use power line wiring in...

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