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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
Book Image

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)

The architecture of the home automation system

In the following figure, we show the elements that integrate the home automation system:

  • First, we have the Particle Photon that sends the signal when the button is pressed via the infrarred sensor connected to the board.
  • The TV sensor (IR receiver sensor) receives the coded signal and turns on the TV and enables the Netflix system
  • All the systems are connected to a home Wi-Fi network (Particle Photon and bulbs are also connected to the network)
  • Also, when the button is pressed, the lights will be on or off
  • The control of the system is based on the Particle Photon through the infrared sensor when the button is pressed
  • All the devices connected to the system can be controlled from the main board, and the main software is created according to the devices and services we want to execute or send data
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