Question about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in home automation to me: Q: I’m working for an IoT start-up and we are looking at BT 4.0 for communication in home automation. We would really like to know about your opinion about BT 4.0, while we have ZigBee and other protocols for home automation, I feel the […]
The vision of Microsoft came true. Nevertheless, everything is smaller than in the video. The screen on the piano and at kitchen plus the PC in the home office are merged together in one device called tablet or smartphone. Microsoft is out and Apple HomeKit is in. Apple got already the interest of Phillips Hue. […]
With Bluetooth 4.1 we will get an IP layer. If we get IP, then we shall get TCP/IP and UDP/IP as well. A Home Automation Profile is still missing. The only option right now is to use a proprietary Bluetooth profile. If we follow the CoRE working group then will get framework for a limited […]
The smart home could address energy saving, fun or comfort. It is often a nice to have. The AAL Ambient Assisted Living is a must in our ageing association. It will save a huge amount of money and help that elderly can stay longer at home. . Staying at home with AAL systems is much […]
The question as below reached me after publishing the Home Automation Solution on the Google TV box on different channels. http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m-componets/home-automation-on-google-tv-box/ I would like to share it with you. WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM? Whatever happened to X10? Thanks for the links Harald. They are definitely applicable to M2M! The TV box we got from Google helps […]
As promised some days ago, the video about the Google TV box in Home Automation is ready. On 22th. of May the wireless road-show will start in Dortmund. In Dortmund we will show the home automation application on Google TV box live. Developers that are interested in can get 1 to 3 days trainings on […]
Since a few month I am pushing Smart Home and HA. I am able to support my customers with several kinds of wireless technologies like: 6LoWPAN ZigBee up to ZigBee IP Bluetooth 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 Proprietary protocols on 433, 868, 915 and 2400 MHz (pear to pear, star and meshed) WIFI Maybe Google’s employees […]
The question as below reached me: “Is Android running on your uC Core? Please explain your solution. We are building smart home gateway right now on 32 bit processor with Android.” Smart home gateway proposal On the uC Core will run the Arduino SDK. Nevertheless, on the uC you can run several operating systems (e.g. […]
IOT – AVL Smart Home – AAL -M2M – M2M2P Name it what ever you like. In the end the device will need some kind of micro controller to run your code. Google selected the Arduino and its clones for the Android@Home. All of Microchip Arduino Clones comes with Android accesory libaries. Table with Arduino´s […]
How to receive push notifications using MQTT in an Android mobile application Dave Lane was so friendly to describe the using of the MQTT protocol with Android. Many thanks to Dave. It will save developers some time and hopefully one of them will make some more code, tips and hints public. The whole story of […]