The Remote Home Monitoring with Hologram Nova will encourage you to upgrade your home to a smarter and more secure one, offering safety measures, protection, monitoring and key indicators for later improvement using the Nova Cellular USB Modem and the Raspberry Pi.
This project is not about just turning ON/OFF a light from a smart phone. It is focused on integrating a network of sensors, nicely presenting the data in a dashboard, monitoring and controlling all the features with a simple and friendly user interface, accessible from a web browser or a touch screen console at home.
Source code, BOM, detailed instructions, drawings, plenty of pictures and a lot of fun can be found in the Remote Home Monitoring with Hologram Nova project page.
Thanks to Hackster.io and Hologram.io which provided me with a free kit to enter the contest with my project idea.