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Published inOct 2016
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781786466952
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Marco Schwartz
Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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In this chapter, we learned how to use the IoT to monitor our homes remotely from anywhere in the world. We first learned how to log data in the cloud and visualize this data using two different IoT platforms. Then, at the end of the chapter, we learned how to visualize the live stream coming from a video camera from anywhere in the world.

There are of course many ways to improve the projects that we discussed in this chapter. You could, for example, create a web server that takes the live video streams from several video cameras and then use Ngrok to visualize all those live video streams at once. This will instantly give you a video security system, that you can use to monitor your home from anywhere in the world!

In the next chapter, we are going to continue diving into the Internet of Things, but this time to control devices inside your home.

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Published in: Oct 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786466952

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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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