Nowadays, creating and sustaining smart homes have been gaining immense momentum with the faster emergence and evolution of home automation and integration infrastructures, technologies and processes. Homes across the globe are being continuously stuffed and saturated with a variety of automation elements in order to sharply enhance the quality of human living, to ensure heightened human productivity and to guarantee increased care, comfort, convenience and choice. However, unfortunately devices from multiple vendors leveraging different standards and technologies are not forthcoming in locating one another dynamically in order to communicate, compose and collaborate to be highly beneficial for home owners and occupants. Hence the implicit and impending challenge is to enable a seamless and spontaneous interaction among these disparate and distributed automation elements to establish the dreamt smart homes.      

             In this book, the author has written about his expertise and experience in turning an ordinary and passive home into an extraordinary, active and technology-splurged home. He has described all the right and relevant devices, appliances, instruments, consumer electronics, kitchen utensils, sensors, actuators, controllers, monitors, switches, etc. for accomplishing this transition quite affordably and quickly. He has written about the networking and communication technologies in order to network distributed and decentralized devices to team up with one another. Also he has penned down about various data types and sources that feed and empower household systems in order to understand the situation precisely and concisely so that actuators, robots and other execution systems can be perfectly instructed to do the identified needs and to deliver them unobtrusively.    

What you’ll learn

• Control appliances like kettles and curtains both locally and remotely.
• Find and harness data sources to provide context-aware living.
• Hack/change existing hardware/software to better fit your needs.
• Integrate various technologies into a function greater than the whole.
• Set up a home network, for both network and audio/video traffic.

Who is this book for?

This book is an essential guide for both amateur and professional Linux users who want to control their homes and their gadgets! This book definitely helps to significantly reduce the time and effort needed to produce competent smart homes. Developers with Linux knowledge can definitely contribute immensely in realizing a horde of Linux-based smart home applications and services. Through the knowledgebase stocked in this book, administrators can quickly install, configure, and maintain home devices effectively so that they can cooperate with one another in ensuring the ideas and ideals behind automated and aware homes. 

Pethuru Raj, PhD
Robert Bosch India
Bangalore, 560068, India
Pethuru.raj@in.bosch.com

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