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Onur Dundar
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Onur Dundar

Onur Dundar is a software engineer who graduated from the Computer Engineering Department of Boazii University. He started working on embedded systems while he was at the university, and in his senior year project, he worked with wireless sensor networks for security and health monitoring. Onur started his career at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Then, he worked at Intel Corporation for 4 years as a software application engineer. He has specialized in embedded Linux and mostly worked on IPTV platforms, Android, as well as IoT platforms, such as Intel Galileo and Edison, and has developed applications for them. He has also helped software developers enhance their applications on these platforms. He has attended many conferences and developer events to introduce Intel Galileo and Edison. He developed the first application and wrote the public collaterals of Intel Edison when he worked at Intel Corporation. Onur is continuing his career at Invent Analytics, implementing algorithms for data analytics.
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Introducing home automation


Home automation means building a residential area, a house or a building, controlled by a centralized mechanism. Home automation can also be phrased as Smart Home, because while building a home with a centralized mechanism, we make the appliances communicate with the central hub or each other and present their current status.

In modern houses, there are many mechanical and electronic devices that need to be controlled by users. For example, if a resident needs light in their place, they will have to switch on/switch off a light bulb with the help of a switch. Another example is that you need to find out the current temperature of your house using a thermometer in order to decide whether to turn off the heater or increase the temperature. Building a system to switch it on/off remotely from a centralized control panel or switching with a condition will be the first aim of home automation.

Home automation is not limited to automating households; it is also about building...

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Published in: Mar 2015Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781785285776

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Onur Dundar

Onur Dundar is a software engineer who graduated from the Computer Engineering Department of Boazii University. He started working on embedded systems while he was at the university, and in his senior year project, he worked with wireless sensor networks for security and health monitoring. Onur started his career at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Then, he worked at Intel Corporation for 4 years as a software application engineer. He has specialized in embedded Linux and mostly worked on IPTV platforms, Android, as well as IoT platforms, such as Intel Galileo and Edison, and has developed applications for them. He has also helped software developers enhance their applications on these platforms. He has attended many conferences and developer events to introduce Intel Galileo and Edison. He developed the first application and wrote the public collaterals of Intel Edison when he worked at Intel Corporation. Onur is continuing his career at Invent Analytics, implementing algorithms for data analytics.
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