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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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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)

Summary

In this chapter we learned how to build a smart parking system using some hardware and software stuff like sensors, camera, electronics, and a Raspberry Pi as a central interface, and we used Arduino to detect when a car enters the parking. After that, we built a parking system plan with some elements for detecting and logging data in a database, which can help us know the number of cars that are in the and how many parking spaces are left; at the end, we mentioned some steps to follow in order to integrate the system with AWS IoT services; for example, the project can be improved by detecting vacant places using a camera and determining which specific places are vacant by taking a picture of the entire parking lot.

In the next chapter, we will see how to build a home system: Netflix’s The Switch for the living room. It will be an interesting project!

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