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How to Smart Home
This book demonstrates how to take home automation and smart homes (smarthome) to the next level, using state of the art technologies such as tablets, smartphones, and the Internet in conjunction with the latest wireline and wireless home automation standards. It has been written for anyone who wants to use smartphone control to automate a building or a residential home. It is suited for both the technology loving hobbyist as well as the professional consultant. Technologies and platforms which are used in the projects described in the book are:
– Wi-Fi / WLAN
– Telnet, HTTP, TCP/IP
– Z-Wave
– ZigBee
– KNX
– Drools (an open source object oriented rule engine)
– OpenRemote (an open source building automation platform)
– Operating systems: Mac OS X / Linux / Windows
Parts of the smarthome projects integrate consumer electronics devices, such as audio equipment from Denon and Marantz. However, projects and instructions are designed so that that they can easily be adapted to other manufacturers.
After explaining the big picture and the key concepts of state of a art smart home, the book will walk you in a step-by-step manner through the implementation of several essential home automation and control projects. At the end of each project phase you should have a real, working solution on your desk, which can be further customized and expanded as desired. Scripts and configurations are explained line by line.
At the end of the book the smart home control system will be capable of:
– smartphone / tablet based display of weather and temperature
– WLAN / smartphone based presence control
– smartphone / tablet based control of lights, heating, power-outlets, consumer electronics
– smartphone / tablet based control of scenarios such as Good Morning, Welcome, Good Night, Leaving Home
– operation of an audio reminder system with text-to-voice conversion of calendar items
– rule based scenario execution triggered by
– time, date
– weather condition
– temperature
– WLAN/smartphone based presence detection within the smart home
– Wi-Fi / WLAN
– Telnet, HTTP, TCP/IP
– Z-Wave
– ZigBee
– KNX
– Drools (an open source object oriented rule engine)
– OpenRemote (an open source building automation platform)
– Operating systems: Mac OS X / Linux / Windows
Parts of the smarthome projects integrate consumer electronics devices, such as audio equipment from Denon and Marantz. However, projects and instructions are designed so that that they can easily be adapted to other manufacturers.
After explaining the big picture and the key concepts of state of a art smart home, the book will walk you in a step-by-step manner through the implementation of several essential home automation and control projects. At the end of each project phase you should have a real, working solution on your desk, which can be further customized and expanded as desired. Scripts and configurations are explained line by line.
At the end of the book the smart home control system will be capable of:
– smartphone / tablet based display of weather and temperature
– WLAN / smartphone based presence control
– smartphone / tablet based control of lights, heating, power-outlets, consumer electronics
– smartphone / tablet based control of scenarios such as Good Morning, Welcome, Good Night, Leaving Home
– operation of an audio reminder system with text-to-voice conversion of calendar items
– rule based scenario execution triggered by
– time, date
– weather condition
– temperature
– WLAN/smartphone based presence detection within the smart home
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 17, 2013
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June 4, 2014
The book I read to research this post was How To Smart Home by Othmar Kyas which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. A smart home is one that incorporates home automation and home network technologies. This can mean things like the ability to control the television and heating via your smartphone or computer and remote controlled curtains and lights. At one time many of the home automation items would be standalone with it being compatible with a specific remote control, then standards came into play like X-10 & more recently homeplug where you could buy items that fit the same standard from different manufacturers that work together. Nowadays people want to control everything in the home via their smartphone and there are apps that will do this. They normally do it via a computer and it's best to use one specifically for this task to prevent the risk of loss of data. You can control Z-wave devices which are wireless with a free utility from Z-cloud called Z-Wave Under which works with Windows, Linux or Mac OSX and this is normally copied onto a USB stick and inserted into the computer. This book takes you through setting up most of the stuff you need but you probably need to read other books to understand what you are doing. You need a working knowledge of things like editing powershell scripts, understand some of the terminology like IP addresses and you may have to use languages like Java & Python. This book seems a bit more up to date than some of the books I have read on this subject recently although I think it was published before Windows 8 was released. I enjoyed reading it and I think it is a really good book.
April 10, 2015
This is the first book that I have ever come across on the Internet of Things and Smart Homes which actually provides detailed instructions on implementing a working system on your own. The first four chapters provide a great overview on what solutions and technologies are available - and then you get to build your own thing! Excellent, and the book of choice for everyone who wants to start a real project. The book was a great read on my Kindle. I liked it so much, I gave a print copy to my best friend as a present.
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