[Ubuntu Chicago] UniForum Chicago Presentation Home Automation with 'Internet of Things' Part 1

[Wayne Schneidman]

 <http://uniforumchicago.org/>Meetings

Home Automation with 'Internet of Things' Part 1Mike AndrewsMonday February
27th 2016 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Bolingbrook, Fountaindale Library, Meeting Room A
<http://uniforumchicago.org/meetings/Home_Automation_IOT.html#GettingThere>
Abstract

This presentation will include a live tour of the home automation under
development in a wired home that has computer controlled devices including
lights, security cameras, door openers and locks, window shades,
thermostat, fire and intrusion alarms, flooding prevention, real time
electric power monitoring and control. The first session will be an
overview of the various home automation technologies and control hubs, with
a view of how they interconnect and interact.

Featured will be demonstrations of the Xtension Home Automation control
system that runs on Mac OS X, the Blue Iris camera surveillance DVR system
that runs on Windows and mobile applications running on Android and IOS.

Among the HA protocols discussed will be wired and wireless X-10, Z-Wave,
Bluetooth, analog and IP connected audio/video, Infrared bridges for remote
control, and other RF protocols, all connected with a TCP/IP home network
backbone using up to Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

Bio

Mike Andrews is a Senior Systems Engineer in his 23rd year working for a
major technology company. He has delivered presentations for UniForum
Chicago since 1997. He is a lifelong technology 'geek' who began tinkering
with electronics when he was 6 years old. He founded a security system
contractor company at age 17. Around 1982 he taught himself microcomputers
and programming leading to jobs at US Robotics and as a Network and Systems
Administrator for the financial firm of the late famed financial trader and
aviator Steve Fossett. He is a private pilot and owner of a Piper airplane,
and the founder of the Pilotcast Aviation Podcast in 2005.

As usual we will be having a "Meeting After the Meeting" for talk and
drinks afterwards at the Gordon Biersch restaurant in the Bolingbrook
Promenade outside mall
<http://www.gordonbiersch.com/locations/bollingbrook?action=view>. The link
goes to the restaurant's Bolingbrook website with a clickable, expandable
map.
Getting to the meeting
The next General meeting of UniForum Chicago will be at:

        Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library
        http://www.fountaindale.org/
        Meeting Room A (1st floor)
        300 West Briarcliff Road
        Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Use the library's FAQ (http://www.fountaindale.org/about/faq)
<http://www.fountaindale.org/about/faq>as a source for how to get to
meeting.
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