Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

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By: Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

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Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Creating a Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror

What is the Raspberry Pi?

Moving on to the LXTerminal

The Magic Mirror

Summary

Automated Gardening System

Items required for the project

Setting up gardening system code (reading humidity)

Connecting it all together

Summary

Integrating CheerLights into a Holiday Display

Items required for this project

Getting the CheerLights code set up

Connecting it all together

Programming the ESP8266 Huzzah for CheerLights

Summary

Erase Parking Headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi

Introduction to smart parking systems

Sensor devices for smart parking

Machine vision systems

Logging spaces in a database

Amazon Web Services IoT

Integrating the system

Summary

Building Netflix's The Switch for the Living Room

Setting up the Particle Photon

Hardware and software requirements

The architecture of the home automation system

Reading IR signals

Programming the button

Assembling the electronics

Controlling smart lights

Sending notifications with IFTTT

Future ideas for projects

Summary

Lock Down with a Windows IoT Face Recognition Door System

Getting started: Installing and configuring Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi 3

Installing Visual Studio

Creating a first example

Applications for the Internet of Things

The architecture of the security system

Future ideas

Summary

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Future ideas

For future ideas and improving this project, we will discuss ideas about how to develop a real situation. In the following figure, we have the application of an entrance to a school, which can do following:

Control the entrance with the face recognition system using a webcam
The entrance door can be configured with a database that logs the date and time a person arrives
I can store the data about the have the number of people that have entered or left the building
In some places, it requires the name of the person, the department that he/she visits the place they came from, and so on
All this information can be stored in a database server and can be controlled from the internet
When the person or the student enters or leaves the system will send an SMS to their parents