How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide for Smart Homes & Building Automation (5th Edition)

This book explains state of the art smart home, building automation and Internet of Things technologies and demonstrates step by step how to apply them to real world projects. The toolset covered consists of tablets, smartphones, sensor equipped devices, the Internet and the latest wireline and wireless building automation standards. You will be introduced to technology basics, planning and design principles, security and privacy considerations as well as implementation details and testing philosophies. Expecting no specific know-how upfront, the book is suited for both – the professional consultant as well as the technology loving hobbyist.
After explaining the big picture and the key concepts of state of the art home and building automation, the book will walk you through the implementation of a concrete building automation and control project in a step-by-step manner. At the end of each project phase you should have a real, working solution on your desk, which can be further customized and expanded as desired. No programming skills are required as prerequisite. Scripts are explained line by line, configuration settings step by step. Of course, if you have never written a short automation script or configured a DSL router, at some point your learning curve will be steeper than that of others. However, everything you learn will be based on open standard technologies, which you will be able to utilize in any other IT related project.
Technologies and platforms which are used in the project are:
Wi-Fi / WLAN
Telnet, HTTP, TCP/IP
Z-Wave, a smart home communication standard
ZigBee, a smart home communication standard
KNX, a smart home communication standard
Drools, an open source object oriented rule engine
OpenRemote, an open source Internet of Things software platform
IFTTT (IF This Than That), a cloud based Internet of Things control service
Google Sheets, a cloud based spreadsheet service, part of Googles G Suite
Google Apps Script, a scripting environment based on JavaScript for G Suite products
macOS / Linux / Windows 10 / Java
The capabilities of the smarthome project described in the second half of the book are:
smartphone / tablet based display of weather and temperature
smartphone / tablet based control of lights, heating, power-outlets, consumer electronics devices
smartphone / tablet based control for scenarios such as Good Morning, Welcome, Good Night, Leaving Home
operation of an audio reminder system with text-to-voice conversion of calendar items
rule based scenario execution, triggered by time, date, weather condition or temperature
rules for scenarios such as 
- empty home (empty during the day)
- vacant home (vacant for two or more days)
- warmup (activation of heating without night savings to bring up temperature in a vacant home) 
- presence simulation (light activity to simulate presence)
- deactivation of all rules
iOS / Android location based presence detection and geofencing using IFTTT and Google Docs
integration with other smart home platforms and intelligent devices via IFTTT
VPN based remote control from outside of the house
Automated restoration of operation after power outages or planned downtime

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Read Me
Chapter 2 The Big Picture
Chapter 3 Key Concepts
Chapter 4 Home Automation Network Protocols
Chapter 5 You Don’T Know What You Don’T Know – Smarthome Security
Chapter 6 Home & Building Automation: Markets And Trends
Chapter 7 Smart Homes For The Masses: Google, Apple, Samsung, Amazon And More …
Chapter 8 To Cloud Or Not To Cloud – This Is The Question
Chapter 9 The Project
Chapter 10 The Home Control Centre: Open Remote
Chapter 11 A Pretty Smart Sensor: Internet Weather
Chapter 12 Integration Of Multimedia: Itunes Remote
Chapter 13 A Little Ai: Drools Rules
Chapter 14 More Idevices
Chapter 15 Where Are You? Geo-Fencing!
Chapter 16 Industry Grade Home Infrastructure Control: Knx
Chapter 17 Knx Control Via Openremote Designer
Chapter 18 Remote Smarthome Control
Chapter 19 Cold Start: Launch Automation
Chapter 20 Troubleshooting And Testing
Chapter 21 We Proudly Present: Reporting
Chapter 22 Appendix
Chapter 23 Bibliography