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Home Automation with Intel Galileo

By : Onur Dundar
Book Image

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

Introducing home automation


Home automation means building a residential area, a house or a building, controlled by a centralized mechanism. Home automation can also be phrased as Smart Home, because while building a home with a centralized mechanism, we make the appliances communicate with the central hub or each other and present their current status.

In modern houses, there are many mechanical and electronic devices that need to be controlled by users. For example, if a resident needs light in their place, they will have to switch on/switch off a light bulb with the help of a switch. Another example is that you need to find out the current temperature of your house using a thermometer in order to decide whether to turn off the heater or increase the temperature. Building a system to switch it on/off remotely from a centralized control panel or switching with a condition will be the first aim of home automation.

Home automation is not limited to automating households; it is also about building...