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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
Book Image

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By: Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Future ideas

For future ideas and improving this project, we will discuss ideas about how to develop a real situation. In the following figure, we have the application of an entrance to a school, which can do following:

  • Control the entrance with the face recognition system using a webcam
  • The entrance door can be configured with a database that logs the date and time a person arrives
  • I can store the data about the have the number of people that have entered or left the building
  • In some places, it requires the name of the person, the department that he/she visits the place they came from, and so on
  • All this information can be stored in a database server and can be controlled from the internet
  • When the person or the student enters or leaves the system will send an SMS to their parents

In the following figure, we have the architecture of the system, which will send the SMS when...