Interfacing of sensors to a single board computer

Smart systems have become more and more a part of modern society as technology becomes more advanced and have come to homes, workplaces, and schools. As such the need for making affordable, customizable and low-powered systems have become the goal of many developments. In this project, a smart home automation system was developed using the GraspIO Cloudio board mounted on a Raspberry PI B+ and an Xbee Transmitter on an Arduino Board. The project’s goal was to make a smart home automation system with microcontrollers that would be able to collect data from sensors and transmit the data over two emerging technologies, the Internet-Of-Things and a mesh network called Zigbee. The system was to be low-powered and have capabilities such as measuring humidity, temperature, and rain, as well as have other functions like offsite phone monitoring, voice activated responses, and autonomous home monitoring mode.Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering