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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to use the IoT to monitor our homes remotely from anywhere in the world. We first learned how to log data in the cloud and visualize this data using two different IoT platforms. Then, at the end of the chapter, we learned how to visualize the live stream coming from a video camera from anywhere in the world.

There are of course many ways to improve the projects that we discussed in this chapter. You could, for example, create a web server that takes the live video streams from several video cameras and then use Ngrok to visualize all those live video streams at once. This will instantly give you a video security system, that you can use to monitor your home from anywhere in the world!

In the next chapter, we are going to continue diving into the Internet of Things, but this time to control devices inside your home.