How To Smart Home A Step By Step Guide To Your Personal Internet Of Things 3rd Edition Othmar Kyas by Othmar Kyas 9783944980072, 3944980077 instant download after payment.

The book explains the key concepts of smart homes and provides a step by step instruction to build an Internet of Things for personal usage. It covers all major technologies and vendors: from Apple HomeKit to Z-Wave, from Google Nest to Bluetooth LE, from OpenRemote to ZigBee. It walks the reader through an actual implementation of a smart home system using state of the art technologies such as tablets, smartphones, a rule engine and the Internet in conjunction with the latest wireline and wireless home automation standards. Technologies and platforms which are used in the projects described in the book are:

Wi-Fi / WLAN
Telnet, HTTP, TCP/IP
Z-Wave
ZigBee
Drools (an open source object oriented rule engine)
OpenRemote (an open source building automation platform)
Operating systems: Mac OS X / Linux / Windows

The resulting smart home control system is 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 scenario control for 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
automatic daily temperature report in CSV format sent via email
heartbeat function to monitor system availability
watchdog monitoring of the heartbeat with automatic alert email