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Home Automation with Intel Galileo

By : Onur Dundar
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Home Automation with Intel Galileo

By: Onur Dundar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Home Automation with Intel Galileo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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...