Home automation using Genuino 101 with Grove sensor kit

Home automation using Intel Edison/ Genuino 101 with Grove sensor kit:

Introduction: Home automation is the use of one or more computers to control basic home functions and features automatically and sometimes remotely. An automated home is sometimes called a "Smart Home".

Home automation can include the scheduling and automatic operation of water sprinkling, heating and air conditioning, window coverings, security systems, lighting, and food preparation appliances. Home automation may also allow vital home functions to be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world using a computer connected to the Internet. Besides the functions already mentioned, remote control can be extended to telephones and answering machines, fax machines, amateur radios and other communications equipment, and home robots such as automatic vacuum cleaners.

The fundamental components of a well-designed home automation system include a computer (or computers) with the appropriate programming, the various devices and systems to be controlled, interconnecting cables or wireless links, a high-speed Internet connection, and an emergency backup power source for the computer, its peripherals, and the essential home systems.

Components used: This is one of my project on the Home automation. I have tried doing it with multiple platforms and board like Arduino, Intel Edison & Galileo, and RaspberryPi. I have used Grove start kit sensors along with the base shield provided. Following are the sensors used:

o Grove temperature & Humidity Sensor

o Grove Light Sensor

o Grove Sound Sensor

o Grove Ultrasonic range detector

o Grove Piezo Vibration sensor

o Grove Relay

o Grove Water Level sensor

o Grove touch sensor

o Grove PIR Motion Sensor

o Grove LED Bar

Description: I have used the Intel’s powerful SoC Edison kit for Arduino for this project. This project was more oriented towards the Internet of Things [IoT]. Here I had connected the multiple sensors mentioned above to the Intel Edison and the data collected was logged in the serial monitor in the computer connected to the Edison via SSH. And also I was displaying on the Grove LCD back light display. After collecting the data from the sensors, depending on the compatibility of the board I am sending the data to cloud or email or SMS or via Bluetooth.

Intel Edison can be set as IoT server, which collects all the data from the peripheral devices and send to the cloud i.e. Intel analytics dashboard available for free for public to analyze the data remotely and can forward the data for further processing or tracking via email server. Or Edison can be configured as the email server directly to send out the data to the concerned mail IDs once the data is collected.