Smart Home Automation with IoT

Have you ever wondered what if you can control the electrical appliances at your home just by a voice command in natural language or remotely from a mobile app?

Can you switch on or switch off the electrical appliances in your home by simple hand gestures or automatically turn on or off the appliances when someone enters a room by detecting human face?

Will it not be useful if the appliances be it the light, cooler, heater, etc. get on or off automatically based on the events or time when needed? For example, when you wake up in the morning the water heater in the bathroom gets automatically switched on and the coffee machine starts making your first coffee.

The light in the room gets switched on when you step into and you can also give voice commands to switch on or off the appliances or the patio lights get switched on automatically when the sun sets it gets dark outside.

Moreover, at any point in time what if you can monitor the status of the appliances in your home, air quality parameters and their trends, usage trends of the different appliances, etc., from a visualization dashboard or mobile app?

But do you need to buy costly smart appliances to enable these? Or is it at all possible to convert your usual appliances into smart appliances and realize smart home automation without changing them?

The answer is yes! You can continue using your usual appliances and make them “smart” by adding a small and cheap hardware unit which you can make yourself at home without any prior experience.

What is even better news is that you can do that just by using free and open-source software setting up a robust and scalable IoT infrastructure in your home to control different types of appliances and monitor them and automate different actions by rules.

You don’t need to be an expert in AI and IoT to enable these scenarios but can implement these following the DIY instructions provided in the book.

It explains how to setup switch control using Relay and micro-controllers and how to program then, use sensors to collect data along with how to use Raspberry Pi and its mini camera called RPICam with simple Python program, the code for which is provided with the book.

Also it explains how you can turn on or off the appliances from mobile app, voice command or when you put a finger up or down or enter the room, to enable complete touch-free control of your home devices.

All these scenarios and many more are explained in detail in the new book “Smart Home Automation with IoT” with step-by-step guidance along with the code and circuit diagrams so that you can build your smart home as DIY without prior knowledge of IoT or programming and convert your usual appliances into smart appliances.

Smart home with automation is new concept applied to our homes and places we live, which a few years back was mostly limited to science fiction, but now have become reality with increasing adoption among general population.

Smart home is the concept of automating the home appliances so that those can work intelligently and automatically mostly without human intervention, by voice commands or remote control.

This not only saves time and optimize usage, but we have also seen the need of touch-less actions during COVID-19 pandemic, which can be also enabled by smart home automation by voice commands or remote control of the appliances.

Smart home appliances are also getting popular nowadays such as smart air-conditioner, smart refrigerator as well as smart lights and fans which can be monitored and controlled through IoT connectivity remotely and digitally.

This practical guide, “Smart Home Automation with IoT” shows you how to create a smart home without breaking the bank. Instead of relying on expensive, closed systems, you utilize the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) with open-source software to design a custom smart home experience that perfectly suits your needs.

This book teaches you to create smart home IoT solutions using Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers like Arduino, NodeMCU (ESP8266), and ESP32. You will learn to program these microcontrollers, control relay modules, and use sensors for data collection.

The guide covers using OpenHAB, InfluxDB, Mosquitto MQTT Broker, and Grafana with Raspberry Pi, enabling a unified system without coding. It also shows how to connect OpenHAB to Alexa or Google Home for voice commands and automate tasks like lighting. Bonus content includes using Raspberry Pi GPIO pins, AI-based hand gesture and face detection, and Docker containers.

By the end of this book, you will be a confident smart home builder, equipped with the knowledge and skills to design, implement, and manage a customized system using open-source software. 

Note: The global smart home with IoT market is rapidly increasing and estimated to be USD 80.21 billion in 2022 and USD 93,98 in 2023 and grow at a CAGR of 20.1% to USD 338.28 billion by 2030.

KEY TAKEAWAYS  

• Learn to make your home smarter with IoT and AI at a very low cost.
• Live examples along with code and circuit samples which you can readily use.
• Learn scenario-based AI-based home automation techniques.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Learn how to implement smart home solution using open-source technologies.
• Learn programming microcontrollers (ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino) using Arduino IDE to integrate with relays and sensors.
• Learn how to install and set up Raspberry Pi for home automation server.
• Learn how to develop Python programs for AI-based automation scenarios.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book aims to be a useful guide for IoT enthusiasts, engineers and professionals, as well as students who want to learn how to DIY smart home automation with IoT.

Key Features of This Book:

• Foundations of IoT: Gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the Internet of Things, exploring its architecture, communication protocols, and the role it plays in enabling smart homes.

• Device Connectivity: Learn about the various sensors, actuators, and devices that form the backbone of a connected home, and understand how to seamlessly integrate them into your IoT ecosystem and setup and use Raspberry Pi as the home automation server.

• Smart Home Platform & Software: Explore open-source IoT platform such as OpenHAB that serve as the central nervous system of your smart home, facilitating communication and control across devices as well as other open source technologies to build your smart home applications.

• Practical Implementation: Walk through hands-on projects with the circuits and code that demonstrate real-world applications of smart home automation.

Author: Dipankar Saha

Publisher: BPB Publications

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