Axeda and ARM Mbed – Part 1

Axeda is one of several (at least a half dozen) companies that sprung up to service the “Cloud” side of the IOT boom.  They were successful enough to have been purchased in August by a company called “PTC” (for some reason it isn’t easy from their website to figure out what the letters P.T.C stand for), […]

Home Automation with Zwave and the HomeTroller Zee (Part 3)

In the previous posts, I gave an introduction to Zwave, described the overall system architecture, and demonstrated the installation of the HomeTroller Zee.  In this post, I will describe the installation of the GE Zwave lightswitch and its connection to the Zwave network.  The GE switch is made by a company called Jasco – which […]

Commentary on Zwave

This whole home automation space is crazy.  It is fractured into many many different and incompatible “standards”.  I have heard (though not verified myself) that many of the Zigbee radios used for home automation are not compatible and there are cases where the central hub has multiple radios to deal with the differences in the […]

Home Automation with Zwave and the HomeTroller Zee (Part 2)

Like any good engineer, the first thing I did after unboxing the HomeTroller was to take it apart.  In this case, I had two motives. First, I wanted to make a backup of the SD Card that runs the Raspberry Pi.  Second, I am always interested in what can be learned by looking inside.  In […]

Index

PSoC4 Boot Sequence Pinball: An electronics package for Newton’s Attic CY8CKIT-021: A super-cool shield with BLE The Creek: An IOT system that monitors the Elkhorn Creek Water Level PSoC4000S and CY8CKIT-145: A Capsense BLE IOT Project PSoC4000S and the SmartIO Physics Lab: IOT for Physics Education Home Automation With Zwave