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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Remote controlled garage door


In this recipe, we are going to build a very useful project to automate your home: a garage door controller. Not only will you be able to control the garage door remotely, but you will also automatically receive alerts on your phone whenever the garage door is opened!

Getting ready

All garage doors around the world are different, so in this project I will actually simulate the closing part of a garage door. Then it will be up to you to actually apply it to your own system that you have in your home.

For this recipe, we are going to connect two components to the Arduino board: a relay, which will simulate the garage door motor, and a proximity sensor, which will be used to detect if the garage door is in the closed position.

This is the list of components that we are going to use in this project:

This is the final result:

Of course, from there, you will need...