Automation in Housing
Author: Vance Publishing Corporation
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi
Author: Steven Goodwin
Publisher: Apress
Published: 2013-07-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1430258888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi shows you how to automate your lights, curtains, music, and more, and control everything via a laptop or mobile phone. You'll learn how to use Linux, including Linux on Raspberry Pi, to control appliances and everything from kettles to curtains, including how to hack game consoles and even incorporate LEGO Mindstorms into your smart home schemes. You’ll discover the practicalities on wiring a house in terms of both and power and networking, along with the selection and placement of servers. There are also explanations on handling communication to (and from) your computer with speech, SMS, email, and web. Finally, you’ll see how your automated appliances can collaborate to become a smart home. Smart Home Automation with Linux was already an excellent resource for home automation, and in this second edition, Steven Goodwin will show you how a house can be fully controlled by its occupants, all using open source software and even open source hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
Home Automation with Raspberry, Google & Python
Author: Gregorio Chenlo Romero
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-12-24
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781679891557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHOME AUTOMATION WITH RASPBERRY, GOOGLE & PYTHON: A fun & useful projectThis book is about the project, design, installation and maintenance of an advanced Home Automation system. A fun and useful project, with multiple sensors and actuators.Based on the Raspberry Pi, Google Home Artificial Intelligence and written in Python on Raspbian. With support for Colorama and Tkinter graphic environments. Additional KNX modules, WIFI switches, infrared converter, Tado° smart thermostat, touch screens, Router, Bridge, decoders, etc.Remote monitoring with VNC, access with NO-IP and Apache server. Multiple IFTTT routines for Google Home and applicable to Amazon Alexa. Bidirectional control, by voice, of sensors: humidity, temperature, thermostat with geolocation, heater, electric supply failure, garage door, air toxicity, doorbell, presence sensors, gas leaks, fire, smoke, flood, Internet connectivity, push buttons, etc. and actuators: lighting, window blinds, LED, acoustic and voice signals, barking guard dog simulation, relays, water and gas valves, electronic watchdog control, etc. All this controlled bidirectionally by voice too, with Google Home, personal messaging with Telegram, touch screen with Raspberry and PLEX server. Reporting with event viewers, email, voice with alarms, and Telegram BOT. Fully configurable, scalable with several proposals (from simple to complex) and basis for other projects in any type of housing.Oriented to Home Automation enthusiasts, College or University students, Engineering, Final & Master Degree projects, students and teachers with basic knowledge of Electricity, Electronics, Python and Raspberry.More information at: gregochenlo.blogspot.com
Automating Inequality
Author: Virginia Eubanks
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1466885963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year." Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values. This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
Inside the Smart Home
Author: Richard Harper
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2003-08-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1852336889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing clear and accessible language this book examines the growing field of ‘smart technology’ for the home. The author first introduces the field before exploring the various background issues, including how the home differs from other environments. He then shows how these background issues affect the design and usability of these technologies. A detailed case study looks at the use of handheld and wearable digital technology in sheltered housing. The last section examines what it is like to live in a smart home and why they have so far failed to reach the levels of success originally predicted. Invaluable reading for anybody interested in designing smart technologies for the home.
Automating Cities
Author: Brydon T. Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9811586705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones, sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further research and development in the area of automation in design and construction to architects, engineers, project managers, superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy makers, and students.
Smart Homes and Their Users
Author: Tom Hargreaves
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-06
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9783319680170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmart home technologies promise to transform domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure while also reducing energy use. But delivering on these potentially conflicting promises depends on how they are adopted and used in homes. This book starts by developing a new analytical framework for understanding smart homes and their users. Drawing on a range of new empirical research combining both qualitative and quantitative data, the book then explores how smart home technologies are perceived by potential users, how they can be used to link domestic energy use to common daily activities, how they may (or may not) be integrated into everyday life by actual users, and how they serve to change the nature of control within households and the home. The book concludes by synthesising a range of evidence-based insights, and posing a series of challenges for industry, policy, and research that need addressing if a smart home future is to be realised. Researchers will find this book provides useful insights into this fast-growing field
BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints
Author: Rodolfo Giometti
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1783986034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutomate and control your home using the power of the BeagleBone Black with practical home automation projects About This Book Build, set up, and develop your circuits via step-by-step tutorial of practical examples, from initial board setup to device driver management Get access to several kinds of computer peripherals to monitor and control your domestic environment using this guide This book is spread across 10 chapters all focused on one practical home automation project Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who know how to use BeagleBone and are just above the “beginner” level. If you want to learn to use embedded machine learning capabilities, you should have some experience of creating simple home automation projects. What You Will Learn Build a CO (and other gas) sensor with a buzzer/LED alarm to signal high concentrations Log environment data and plot it in a fancy manner Develop a simple web interface with a LAMP platform Prepare complex web interfaces in JavaScript and get to know how to stream video data from a webcam Use APIs to get access to a Google Docs account or a WhatsApp/Facebook account to manage a home automation system Add custom device drivers to manage an LED with different blinking frequencies Discover how to work with electronic components to build small circuits Use an NFS, temperature sensor, relays, and other peripherals to monitor and control your surroundings In Detail BeagleBone is a microboard PC that runs Linux. It can connect to the Internet and can run OSes such as Android and Ubuntu. BeagleBone is used for a variety of different purposes and projects, from simple projects such as building a thermostat to more advanced ones such as home security systems. Packed with real-world examples, this book will provide you with examples of how to connect several sensors and an actuator to the BeagleBone Black. You'll learn how to give access to them, in order to realize simple-to-complex monitoring and controlling systems that will help you take control of the house. You will also find software examples of implementing web interfaces using the classical PHP/HTML pair with JavaScript, using complex APIs to interact with a Google Docs account, WhatsApp, or Facebook. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to use a BeagleBone Black in a home automation project. Style and approach This step-by-step guide contains several home automation examples that can be used as base projects for tons of other home automation and control systems. Through clear, concise examples based on real-life situations, you will quickly get to grips with the core concepts needed to develop home automation applications with the BeagleBone Black using both the C language and high-level scripting languages such as PHP, Python, and JavaScript.
Agricultural Automation
Author: Qin Zhang
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1439880581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgricultural automation is the core technology for computer-aided agricultural production management and implementation. An integration of equipment, infotronics, and precision farming technologies, it creates viable solutions for challenges facing the food, fiber, feed, and fuel needs of the human race now and into the future. Agricultural Automat
