Smart Home
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Battery-Less Smart Door Sensor Improves Energy Efficiency in IoT with Solar Power and Supercapacitors Smart home technology is continuously evolving, with energy efficiency driving innovation. A standout project in the developer community is the Battery-Less Smart Door Sensor, a highly efficient system that runs entirely without batteries. Powered by solar energy and supercapacitors, this breakthrough device eliminates the need for traditional batteries, making it a sustainable option for… |
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Scalable & Secure Bootflash MCUs Raise Embedded-Application Performance in Smart Home and Industrial Systems STMicroelectronics has introduced the new STM32H7 MCU series that combines the highest-performing Arm Cortex-M core ST has yet announced (Cortex-M7 running at up to 600MHz) with minimal on-chip memory and high-speed external interfaces. The new STM32H7R and STM32H7S microcontrollers come with robust security features, needed to address Internet of… |
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ESP32 Smart Home Automation using Alexa and Google Assistant If you are new to smart home automation and are looking to build your first project to control your lights and fans with voice commands, then this article is right for you. In this Internet of Things (IoT) project, I'll guide you through creating a smart home control system that can be controlled using both Google Assistant and Alexa, using an ESP32 and Sinric… |
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Giving Voice to Smart Products ‘It is not only about what you say. It is also about how you say it.’ This old-age adage quite aptly sums up the need for human beings to communicate effectively with each other. The necessity of humans to interconnect with one another through voice and sounds has presented a future where communication with machines has become inevitable. … |
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Home Assistant Yellow: The Future of Smart Home Connectivity Home Assistant Yellow, the groundbreaking smart home hub that has taken the home automation world by storm, is not just a product but the result of years of dedication and collaboration by the passionate team behind Home Assistant. With a successful crowdfunding campaign and an impressive amount raised, Home Assistant Yellow has become a… |
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Ubo - The Open-Source Smart Pod Built for Privacy and Customizability Engineer Mehrdad Majzoobi’s new Raspberry Pi based smart home device – Ubo the Smart Edge Pod is about to launch. The Ubo features an integrated display, speakers, microphones, webcam, sensors and many more features. The Smart Edge Pod integrates a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC along with an onboard Infineon Optiga Trust M SLS32AIA security co-… |
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ESP RainMaker Getting Started with ESP32 In this tutorial, we are going to look at the ESP RainMaker. ESP RainMaker is the end-to-end platform for the ESP chips from Experessif. It is designed as a successor to Experessif’s ESP Jumpstart platform. ESP RainMaker enables customers to quickly design, build and deploy AIoT solutions based on enterprise-level cloud computing without… |
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Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 Combo Module with High Performance Capabilities for Industrial IoT and Smart Home Murata has announced its collaboration with NXP Semiconductors to develop the Type 1XL high-performance Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 module. Based on the NXP 88W9098 combo chipset, this ultra-small dual-band module supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2×2 multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output (MU-MIMO) and Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE). This module… |
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Build Your Own Compact DIY Smart Switch Ever felt lazy in getting up from the comfort of your bed to turn off that light switch. So here we have a cost-effective DIY project to turn any traditional switch into a smart switch. This project doesn't require you to change switches in your AC switchboards. As the brain of the project, we will be using ESP8266-01, a solid-state relay for safe and efficient AC… |
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Digi-Key Releases Season 2 of City Digital Video Series with u-blox, Littelfuse and Taoglas Digi-Key Electronics has announced the release of Season 2 of its City Digital video series that is sponsored by u-blox, Littelfuse, and Taoglas. This three-part series dives deeper into smart cities, exploring the ways technology is transforming the modern home and finding its way into all aspects of daily life. The first… |
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Smart Video Doorbell using ESP32 Cam Nowadays, Security system is one of the most researched fields and with increasing security threats, companies are launching new smart security products to combat these threats. IoT is an added advantage in this field which can automatically trigger an event, like calling the police, fire brigade or your neighbor, in case of any emergency. We previously built many security… |
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IoT based Smart Dustbin Management System using NodeMCU The idea struck us when we observed that the garbage truck use to go around the town to collect solid waste twice a day. Although this system was thorough it was very inefficient. For example, let's say street A is a busy street and we see that the garbage fills up really fast whereas maybe street B even after two days the bin is even half full. … |
