Preface

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a powerful, low-cost, credit-card sized computer, which lends itself perfectly to begin the controller of sophisticated home automation devices. Using the available on-board interfaces, the Raspberry Pi Zero can be expanded to allow the connection of a virtually infinite number of security sensors and devices.

Since the Arduino platform is more versatile and useful for making projects, including the networking applications of the Internet of Things, this is what we will see in this book: the integration of devices connected to the nodes using the amazing and important Arduino board, and how to integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero to control and monitor the devices from a central interface working as a hub. With software programming you will create an Internet of Things system based in developing technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and Node.js.

This is exactly what I will teach you to do in this book. You will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi Zero board in several home domotics projects in order for you to build your own.

The books guides you, making the projects in each chapter from preparing the field, the hardware, the sensors, the communication, and the software programming-control in order to have a complete control and monitoring system.