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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

By : Marco Schwartz
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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

The release of the Raspberry Pi Zero has completely amazed the tech community. With the price, form factor, and being high on utility—the Raspberry Pi Zero is the perfect companion to support home automation projects and makes IoT even more accessible. With this book, you will be able to create and program home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero board. The book will teach you how to build a thermostat that will automatically regulate the temperature in your home. Another important topic in home automation is controlling electrical appliances, and you will learn how to control LED Lights, lamps, and other electrical applications. Moving on, we will build a smart energy meter that can measure the power of the appliance, and you’ll learn how to switch it on and off. You’ll also see how to build simple security system, composed of alarms, a security camera, and motion detectors. At the end, you will integrate everything what you learned so far into a more complex project to automate the key aspects of your home. By the end, you will have deepened your knowledge of the Raspberry Pi Zero, and will know how to build autonomous home automation projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hardware and software requirements


As always, we are going to start with a list of required hardware and software components for the project. We are going to use four modules in total: a sensor module, an appliance control module, a motion sensor module, and a camera module.

Of course, you will need one Raspberry Pi Zero board for each module you use, along with supporting components, such as SD cards and power supplies. If you plan to run the central interface on a Raspberry Pi Zero as well, you will need an additional Pi Zero board.

For the sensors module, we'll use a simple DHT11 sensor, along with a 4.7k Ohm resistor.

For the appliance control module, we'll use the PowerSwitch Tail Kit that we already used in several chapters of this book.

For the motion sensor module, we'll use a simple PIR motion sensor.

For the camera module, we are going to use the C270 HD camera from Logitech. However, you can use any USB camera here.

You will also need the usual breadboard and jumper wires.

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