Mark Burkley, our CTO, describes how he finally made his home smarter using our ubiworx™ IoT software framework. From securing his garage door through to controlling his home’s internal and external lighting, Mark explains how he implemented the entire solution and encourages readers to try build similar smart solutions.
If you are like me then you also have a garage that has a vast collection of tools and other bits and pieces that are carefully arranged in a way that looks like a complete mess to the untrained eye. But in fact we know exactly where everything is, and restricting access to only those who won’t rearrange everything in a misguided attempt to help you is a must. I decided an interesting use case for ubiworx™ would be to control a magnetic door lock to my half of the garage.
Once I started building the access control I thought wouldn’t it be good to incorporate some PIR sensors to also control the lights. And maybe include a temperature sensor to check if the temperature drops below freezing. While I’m at it, why not get rid of those mechanical socket timers that we use to turn on and off lights while we’re away and at the same time save me from having to switch on all the lamps every evening and off every morning. Finally, wouldn’t it be nice if I could control all this over the internet but more importantly keep an audit trail of exactly what was activated and at what time. And just because it’s Halloween let’s incorporate some outdoor Halloween decorations and lighting too.
Motion controlled lights
While this project is a bit of fun, I am using it to demonstrate some key advantages of using ubiworx™. A key aspect is of course having to write zero lines of code. ubiworx™ is very modular and extensible, and you can add on support for any sensor you want, but for most use cases you just can configure it out of the box which is a great way to rapidly develop an IoT solution. In addition, the web UI allows dynamic creation and tuning of logic rules to be executed by the gateway without ever having to physically access the gateway.
Read the full post on out ubiworx™ blog
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