After a series of timeline delays due a lot of (several) personal troubles I can restart the publication of the project blog posts with some smart updates. The project is near to be finished and in few days also the presentation location and dates wi...
Welcome to installment number twenty seven of the Design Challenge Project Summary series here at Element14. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series, each week, I chose single Design Challenge project from the current challenge, or...
The Challenge Before I get into the reason for this post, let's take a moment and talk about what this design challenge was all about. The Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge was the second official design challenge of 2016, and tasked its co...
Today on the national newspaper "La Stampa" in Turin, Italy. Thanks to the journalist Noemi Penna that has mentioned the sponsors sites.In attach the pdf version, as soon as possible I will update the post with the English translation.
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The internet of things (IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data. In ...
Acrylic Case I'm not sure if it is proper to continue the blog after the challenge, so someone could smack me around if not, but I plan to continue working on the project so here be a short post post. At the end of the challenge, the p...
OpenHAB 2
Compatibility
Deploy
Configure
Use
Server
Client
The challenge may be over, it doesn't mean the project cannot be further improved or expanded! In this post, I will cover the notification feature for iOS devices us...
Welcome to installment number twenty four of the Design Challenge Project Summary series here at Element14. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I will pick a single Design Challenge project from the current challenge, and write...
IntroductionThis PiIot Challenge evolved in a very strange mode for me; as much the project was growing as much a new scenario was emerging imposing as the main track.So what happened? I had to make a choice: close the challenge just in time or smoot...
It's been a very interesting challenge! 3 months to learn a bunch of new things (specially in server and services implementation) and one common enemy... TIME! Only the basic structure of the proposed plan was implemented in the end. However, this is...
Last day (+ 1) of Pi IoT competition, and a Smart Competition Home is ready to run In this post, I wanted to show how the system looks like: both in paper and in the house itself. So here comes the pictures: System Description &...
This new post finalized the User Node (an Android device). It will include the smart-house functionalities to that of the competition system. This way, any resident will be able to check the smart house information while connected to the WiFi and swi...
In order to have a bit more of feedback and add some thrilling while running ("wait! when did he run all those miles?? no way I will let this be"), I want to have an updated table of the current's month competition state. That means:Inc...
This post describes the last step to have a functional competition system. It will show how to update the python GUI of the central node with the data stored in the database (coming from each of the roommates phones, as explained in the previous post...
Going through my previous blog entries I realized I had not provided the followup information for my Farm Operations Center Box that I had previously said I would. So here it is! :-) As I had mentioned before the medium sized b...
There seems to be Irony that my blog #13 comes with bad news. I was unable to get my Enocean Pi to work with 3 different Raspberry Pis. Leading me to wonder if I have a bad Hat. :-( I worked for days on getting it to link with ...
First off I want to thank Element 14 and all of the incredible participants of this design challenge! It was an experience I greatly enjoyed and want to continue to expand upon! The other participants had brilliant ideas and implementation...
The challenge deadline is almost there, so it's time for a final demonstration! In this last post I'll show you the results of my work in a video and then describe what I did and what I'm planning to improve in the future. Let's start with the f...
Sources
Raspberry Pi
Puppet
Voice Control
Sense HAT
Pi Camera
OpenHAB 2
EnOcean
Energy Monitoring
Adafruit
CNC
A lot of online sources were used in order to achieve the creation of my project. Though the sources have been ...
Features
Devices
Energy Monitor
IP Camera
Key Holder
Alarm Clock
Control Unit
Demo
Conclusion
It's been a tough, stressful, but certainly fun three months competing in this challenge. As if the challenge itself wasn't challeng...
Old MacDonald had a farm and on his farm he grows crops, which he likes to monitor using the Internet of Things. Therefore he is in need of a camera capable of doing that. Luckily element14 came up with a challenge in which such a camera is developed...
