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Building a Home Security System with Raspberry Pi

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782175278
Pages 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Matthew Poole Matthew Poole
Profile icon Matthew Poole

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Building a Home Security System with Raspberry Pi
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi 2. Connecting Things to Your Pi with GPIO 3. Extending Your Pi to Connect More Things 4. Adding a Magnetic Contact Sensor 5. Adding a Passive Infrared Motion Sensor 6. Adding Cameras to Our Security System 7. Building a Web-Based Control Panel 8. A Miscellany of Things 9. Putting It All Together Index

Conclusion


The Raspberry Pi is a powerful little beast and a great platform for building low-cost, but highly capable, embedded systems. The interfaces built into its GPIO connector make it easy to bolt on modules using simple low-cost electronics and a bit of configuration to create very functional and flexible systems. The inclusion of a dedicated camera interface and networking interfaces give you everything you could possible need for an Internet-connected home security system.

I've covered a lot of topics in this book, and I could have gone on and on, but I hope that what I have presented has been done in a structured and methodical way, and has given you the tools and techniques to carry on this journey so that you are able to create the perfect home security system for your needs.

Tips for building systems

As a systems guy who has to work with many different technologies and disciplines on a day-to-day basis, I just want to leave you with the following thoughts to consider, if you choose...

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