{"id":2382,"date":"2018-02-09T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/system-on-module-som\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T08:18:40","slug":"smart-home-solution-using-esomimx6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/smart-home-solution-using-esomimx6\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Home Solution using eSOMiMX6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home automation is the use of one or more smart devices to control basic home functions and features automatically and sometimes remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Home automation can include the scheduling and automatic operation of water sprinkling, heating and air conditioning, window coverings, security systems, lighting, and food preparation appliances.<\/p>\n<p>The power to monitor occupancy and to intelligently control heating, lighting and appliances around you and your family results in huge improvements in efficiency (and convenience). For example, a smart home can control the Air Conditioning systems by measuring the temperature in each zone of your smart home.<\/p>\n<p>This article helps you find a smart home solution using home assistant with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a> acting as a broker.<\/p>\n<p>Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python3. Using Home Assistant, the following are possible.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;float: left\">\n<div style=\"width: 50%;float: left\">\n<ul>\n<li>Set rules for automation (If Temperature &gt; 30 degrees Celsius then Turn on AC).<\/li>\n<li>Control your home appliances from a browser.<\/li>\n<li>Track the location of your family members.<\/li>\n<li>Get notifications on certain events.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, it doesn\u2019t stop here&#8230; You can change the configuration and automation rules on the go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 50%;float: right\">\n<table style=\"width: 400px;margin: 0px auto;border: 1px solid #85E4F7\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid #85E4F7\">\n<td align=\"center\" width=\"24%\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Adobe-Spark.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Spark\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"1%\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;background: #00314F;margin: 0px auto;border-spacing: 0px;color: #ffffff;font-size: 18px\" align=\"center\" width=\"75%\"><strong>Try eSOMiMX6 As A Smart Gateway <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"width: 100%;height: 25px;text-align: left;background: #85E4F7;margin: 0px auto;border-spacing: 0px;color: #000000;font-size: 15px\">\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.e-consystems.com\/Downloads?key=5e4%2B6k1IAgZkB6%2B8WeBwzMrvVLDl0kepQlhh7Fc%2FQhyEh6wjFRDQostwLnf%2Fxh0J5fGZKxDAW%2FTc0UJsCLbm%2Fa5h0PnsucOwLNj4UWQVuXcf%2FRNglf6C9Fv%2BRiEmNYkGGHliJq6imxKwoj8zTTzdZ%2BC%2BSKLsHZjkMjV1BfLGC4gg1Ch3c5G%2BE2yJwuegorCb1L65rzx2p9IA3HxtdPmRkIZ6s97zcsI4xgqhDA6%2BoI7%2FX56TRut0qSxXhpychKHa%2F0ZLsbWStgo50bD23Xg9WpE%2B1Ww9a2gB3t6Sy%2FOdEr8rK8RUM6uUHw%2FLmehQYRHC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> IoT-Frameworks Application Guide<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"width: 100%;height: 25px;text-align: left;background: #FFFFFF;margin: 0px auto;border-spacing: 0px;color: #000000;font-size: 15px\">\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.e-consystems.com\/Downloads?key=5e4%2B6k1IAgZkB6%2B8WeBwzH85RsuWjCCP8YVCDf0e4%2BZ7cIe2BaGuRw1C5nZWUjJz8dF6sauoDs%2BR4Va24MMPucwu2mGyrGkBYUJwdKbCmwCM8NueLLcBRLCcIpLJchvBTJ%2BqZoRxaJYD77sSKLia8bhx3T0rqjG8VsoZmyazplWpyxxr%2FmEHplVHeuc%2BgGWCbl856U3otTBQCthJWXxJoWrMtWzpe8ADFTLb39O7Z9YDDUiy7NgvtkeG5xmRjIF7XJAfXCx5ahXkggE90nw7IguqeRspNyyjvbUdt50j1yc%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> IoT Frameworks installation packages &amp; samples<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/home-assistant.io\/\">page<\/a> to get help on Home Assistant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eSOMiMX6 &#8211; Being a Broker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To facilitate communication between the sensors and Home Assistant, we use our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a> as a Mosquitto. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">Build Smart Gateway Using eSOMiMX6<\/a> to know about MQTT. There are many public brokers but they can be used only for testing purposes. So, it\u2019s better to have your own broker for handling your MQTT messages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what we have done&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We used Particle Photon and an add-on weather shield board to sense and publish temperature and wind speed values to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We installed Home Assistant on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We started the Mosquitto broker on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/auth\/Account\/login\">developer website<\/a> to get step by step instructions to build, configure and run Mosquitto on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/iMX6-micro-som-system-on-module.asp\">eSOMiMX6<\/a> board.<\/p>\n<p>For further assistance and queries get in touch with <a href=\"mailto:sales@e-consystems.com\">sales@e-consystems.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home automation is the use of one or more smart devices to control basic home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,342,195,340,341],"tags":[399,251,209,401,400,339],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}