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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

You're reading from   Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook Build exciting IoT projects using the Arduino platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286582
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Connecting an Arduino to the Web 2. Cloud Data Monitoring FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with Web Services 4. Machine-to-Machine Interactions 5. Home Automation Projects 6. Fun Internet of Things Projects 7. Mobile Robot Applications Index

Automated light controller


Inside this recipe, we are going to continue exploring M2M communications with the Arduino MKR1000 board, this time by creating an automated light controller based on Arduino. A first module will be in charge of detecting the ambient light level, and then sending alerts to a second module, which will switch a light on or off, depending on the received alert.

Getting ready

To control a lamp in this project, we are going to use a very convenient component called the PowerSwitch Tail:

These components allow us to easily control devices powered by the mains electricity from an Arduino board, as you can just plug it into the mains electricity and then plug your device into it as well.

This is the list of the components that will be required for this recipe:

Let's now assemble the hardware for this recipe. We are...

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