The first of a series of developer meetings called eMan Dev Meetup were held in the premises of our new branch in Hradec Králové earlier this week. Roughly two dozen Internet of Things and technology enthusiasts came to verify that embarking on building a smart home by yourself is not difficult.
The Hradec Králové eMan Dev Meetup was held in the spirit of the Internet of Things and Smart Home
The task of our team composed of Jiri Pech, Petr Cihula and Pavel Doležal was to show that by using simple and commercially available technologies one can easily enter the still somewhat mysterious world of the Internet of Things. Today there are numerous options on how to build the basis of a smart home on your own, for example Raspberry Pi or ESP8266 are widely used.
For practical demonstrations, we have used Arduino, RabbitMQ with the MQTT pluginem, iPhone and Apple Watch. We showed you how easy it is to connect Arduino with its sensors reading temperature, humidity and many other parameters with a server that displayed the processed data on an iPhone, Apple Watch and the Web.
You can check out the presentation from the Meetup at http://goo.gl/YKj6NQ. We will produce and publish a video from the event as soon as possible.
We are planning additional Meetups, not only in Hradec Králové, but also in Prague, Pilsen and in other cities. We would be glad if you could send us tips on topics we could talk about at one of the future meetings at devmeetup@eman.cz.
