A DIY Smart Home Guide: Tools for Automating Your Home Monitoring and Security Using Arduino, ESP8266, and Android

A DIY Smart Home Guide: Tools for Automating Your Home Monitoring and Security Using Arduino, ESP8266, and Android
Author: Robert Chin
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1260456145

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Design and build custom devices that work through your phone to control your home remotely Setting up a “smart home” can be costly, intimidating, and invasive. This hands-on guide presents you with an accessible and cheap way to do it yourself using free software that will enable your home and your mobile devices to communicate. A DIY ‘Smart Home’ Guide: Tools for Automating Your Home Monitoring and Security Using Arduino, ESP8266, and Android contains step-by-step plans for easy-to-build projects that work through your phone to control your home environment remotely. All the projects in the book are geared towards helping you create a “smart home,” with fun and useful examples such as wireless temperature and humidity monitors, automated lights, sensors that can trigger alarms in the event of broken glass, fire, window entry, or water heater leakage, and much more! All projects can be accomplished with no previous knowledge; for those with some background in C/C++ or JAVA, the projects can be customized. • All projects use easy, free, flexible, open-source platforms such as Arduino • Focuses projects on real-world remote control activations for protecting the home • Written by a “smart home” expert and experienced author

ESP8266 Home Automation Projects

ESP8266 Home Automation Projects
Author: Catalin Batrinu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781787282629

Unleash the power of the ESP8266 and build a complete home automation system with it.About This Book* Harness the power of the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip to build an effective Home Automation System* Learn about the various ESP8266 modules* Configuring the ESP8266 and making interesting home automation projects* A step-by-step guide on the ESP8266 chip and how to convert your home into a smart home.Who This Book Is ForThis book is targeted at people who want to build connected and inexpensive home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip, and to completely automate their homes. A basic understanding of the board would be an added advantageWhat You Will Learn* Get, compile, install, and configure an MQTT server* Use the Wi-Fi connectivity feature to control appliances remotely* Control several home appliances using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip* Control and monitor your home from the cloud using ESP8266 modules* Stream real-time data from the ESP8266 to a server over WebSockets* Create an Android mobile application for your projectIn DetailThe ESP8266 is a low-cost yet powerful Wi-Fi chip that is becoming more popular at an alarming rate, and people have adopted it to create interesting projects.With this book, you will learn to create and program home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. You will learn how to build a thermostat to measure and adjust the temperature accordingly and how to build a security system using the ESP8266. Furthermore, you will design a complete home automation system from sensor to your own cloud. You will touch base on data monitoring, controlling appliances, and security aspects.By the end of the book, you will understand how to completely control and monitor your home from the cloud and from a mobile application. You will be familiar with the capabilities of the ESP8266 and will have successfully designed a complete ready-to-sell home automated system.Style and approachA practical book that will cover independent home automation projects.

Building Open Source Hardware

Building Open Source Hardware
Author: Alicia Gibb
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321906047

This is the first hands-on guide to the entire process of designing and manufacturing open source hardware. Drawing on extensive personal experience with DIY, maker, and hardware hacking projects, industry-leading contributors share proven approaches to design, remixing, fabrication, manufacturing, troubleshooting, licensing, documentation, and running an open source hardware business. Part I covers the emergence and evolution of open source hardware, what open source hardware licenses mean, and the growing role of standards in making hardware more open. Part II offers contributors' expert advice on key tasks, ranging from creating derivatives to using source files. Part III turns to production, showing how to manufacture at multiple scales-from personal to commercial. Appendixes provide valuable checklists for design, manufacture, security, and documentation. And to foster even more hands-on learning and experimentation, the low-cost Blinky Buildings open source hardware kit is used as an example throughout. Learn how to Get involved in the open source hardware community-its history and values Develop designs you can successfully prototype and manufacture Walk step by step through making derivatives from existing projects Build open source 3D printers, and remix 3D printable objects Create open source wearables Work with diverse source files, from electronics to other physical materials Fabricate your own designs Move from prototype to commercial manufacturing, and troubleshoot problems Choose a business model and build a profitable open source hardware company Avoid pitfalls associated with trademarks, copyrights, patents, and licensing Write documentation other hardware hackers can use Use open source hardware in education, helping students learn without boundaries

Electronics Projects with the ESP8266 and ESP32

Electronics Projects with the ESP8266 and ESP32
Author: Neil Cameron
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781484263358

Discover the powerful ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers and their Wi-Fi communication. The ESP32 microcontroller features Bluetooth and BLE communication in addition to Wi-Fi. The book emphasizes practical projects and readers are guided through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication, mobile app design and build, ESP-NOW and LoRa communication, and signal generation. Projects throughout the book utilize the Wi-Fi functionality and processing power of the ESP microcontrollers. Projects are built in the Arduino IDE, so you don't need to download other programming software. Mobile apps are now ubiquitous, making the app build projects of the book very relevant, as are the web page design projects. In Electronics Projects with the ESP8266 and ESP32, you'll see how easy and practical it is to access information over the internet, develop web pages, build mobile apps to remotely control devices with speech recognition or incorporate Google Maps in a GPS route tracking app. You will · Build practical electronics projects with an ESP8266 or ESP32 microcontroller with Wi-Fi communication · Use the Wi-Fi function of the ESP8266 and ESP32 to update web pages · Communicate with your mobile phone or smart watch by Bluetooth Low Energy · Transmit and receive information to control remote devices over the internet · Understand the design and build of mobile apps for internet based applications · Apply your computer programming skills in C++, JavaScript, AJAX and JSON · Use WebSocket, MQTT brokers and IFTTT for fast two-way communication with webpages Who This Book Is For The target audience is for Makers and Tinkerers who want to build internet/intranet based applications with more powerful microcontrollers, such as the ESP8266 or ESP32. A level of C++ programming expertise with the Arduino IDE is assumed, although all sketches are fully described and comprehensively commented.

Arduino Essentials

Arduino Essentials
Author: Francis Perea
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1784395862

If you are a hobbyist who wants to develop projects based on Arduino as the main microcontroller platform or an engineer interested in finding out what the Arduino platform offers, then this book is ideal for you. Some prior knowledge of the C programming language is required.

Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems

Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems
Author: Tomonobu Senjyu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 759
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811570620

This book gathers papers addressing state-of-the-art research in all areas of information and communication technologies and their applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis. It presents the outcomes of the Fourth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems, which was held in Ahmedabad, India. Divided into two volumes, the book discusses the fundamentals of various data analysis techniques and algorithms, making it a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners alike.

Expert Clouds and Applications

Expert Clouds and Applications
Author: I. Jeena Jacob
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811621268

This book features original papers from International Conference on Expert Clouds and Applications (ICOECA 2021), organized by GITAM School of Technology, Bangalore, India during February 18–19, 2021. It covers new research insights on artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, sustainability, and knowledge-based expert systems. The book discusses innovative research from all aspects including theoretical, practical, and experimental domains that pertain to the expert systems, sustainable clouds, and artificial intelligence technologies.

ICT Analysis and Applications

ICT Analysis and Applications
Author: Simon Fong
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811506302

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2019), held in Goa, India, on 5–6 July 2019. The conference provided a valuable forum for cutting-edge research discussions among pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all around the world. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.

Foundations of GTK+ Development

Foundations of GTK+ Development
Author: Andrew Krause
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2007-09-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430203862

There are only two mainstream solutions for building the graphical interface of Linux-based desktop applications, and GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is one of them. It is a necessary technology for all Linux programmers. This book guides the reader through the complexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that allows the reader to make the leap from novice to professional. Beginning with an overview of key topics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, readers move on to learn about more advanced issues. Replete with real-world examples, the developer can quickly take advantages of the concepts presented within to begin building his own projects.