Building home gateways with Eclipse SmartHome

Despite the buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) there are still many devices, systems and protocols for home automation that cannot be directly hooked up to your wifi and used through IP.

To enable smartphone apps to access them and to integrate them with other devices, an IP gateway is required - if it connects to more than just one specific system, this is usually called a home gateway.

Eclipse SmartHome is a flexible software framework for such home gateways. Being initiated by the popular open-source project openHAB, the Eclipse SmartHome project leads the way from the niche to the mass market by fostering industry adoption and by introducing new concepts for setup and configuration procedures of such solutions.

In this webinar you will learn about the concepts of Eclipse SmartHome, what services it provides and how to build a customized solution with it.

Slides are available on Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/xthirtynine/eclipse-smart-home-webinar

Building the Internet of Things with Java

Streamed live on Nov 6, 2014

It may seem hard to get started with the Internet of Things (IoT) with so many technologies, protocols, hardware platforms, … involved. In this session, Benjamin Cabé from the Eclipse Foundation will cover all you need to know to start building IoT solutions using Java and open technologies like MQTT, CoAP, OSGi, or LWM2M. A real-life application (smart greenhouse) will be used as an example and you will most likely leave the session craving for building a very similar application yourself!

Speaker: Benjamin Cabé

Benjamin Cabé is IoT evangelist at the Eclipse Foundation. He advocates the use of open and innovative technologies for the Internet of Things and likes building crazy machines with Arduino kits and all kinds of open hardware platforms. You can find him online on Twitter (@kartben) or on his blog: http://blog.benjamin-cabe.com.

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