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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

Delving into energy management


Energy management is about managing devices that consume energy in order to save energy and control their consumption. Saving energy will lead to the more efficient usage of resources and will reduce consumption. For energy management in Smart Homes, there are sensors that help you control devices to power them on or off.

Many sensors and devices are being produced for energy management purposes. Temperature sensors and energy meters are key sensors; relay switches and dimmers are essential actuators of energy management systems. You can either get a sensor and develop your own device to embed into your home, or you can directly buy devices to embed into your home and control them.

There are wall plugs with both energy meters and on/off switches, and lamp holders with switches and dimmers. Other sensors can be integrated with the energy management system to make them work more efficiently and automatically. Temperature, motion, or light sensors can be used to...