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Building a Home Security System with BeagleBone

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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783559602

Length 120 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

William Pretty

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Building a Home Security System with BeagleBone

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Alarm Systems 101

2. Our Very First Alarm System FREE CHAPTER

3. Bigger and Better

4. Building the Hardware

5. Testing the Hardware

6. Automating Stuff

7. Protecting Your Network

8. Keeping an Eye on Things

9. Going Further

Index

Chapter 5. Testing the Hardware

In the previous chapter we built the hardware for our alarm system. Now it is time to test the hardware. We will do that by first testing it without the BeagleBone attached. The boards that we built have built-in test LEDs, which will allow us to test the hardware without running any software, or even connecting the hardware to a computer.

You will find this feature handy when you actually install the sensors. You can have a partner-walk-around trip sensors, and open and close windows and doors, all without running any software. Basically, if the zone LED goes on and off when you open and close an alarm circuit, your wiring is good.

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Authors (1)

William Pretty

William Pretty

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.

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