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Garduino Upgrade

Garduino Upgrade, Now with more Twitter! Using Atmega

A couple months ago I came across two great instructables.  The first was the Garduino, an arduino controlled garden to help you grow plants at home.  The second was the Tweet-a-Watt, a project that teaches you how to monitor your home power usage using Xbees and Twitter.  I read about both these projects here at Instructables and […]

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Electricity End Use Consumption

Wireless Sensor Network for Energy and Environmental Monitoring: Helping Old Buildings Go Green Using Atmega

I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency

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Raspberry Pi IoT device [RASa].

A Simplified Secure Programming Platform for Internet of Things Devices Using Atmega

INTRODUCTION The Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become very popular in various critical and non-critical usage fields. Many people have started to use IoT devices realizing their benefits in their lives and scientific research [MSPC12, CGOF13]. Because of the popularity of IoT devices, developers gravitate toward the development of IoT applications. These applications utilize

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Ultrasonic Security System

Ultrasonic Security System using Atmega644 microcontroller

This portable security system is built based on Atmega644 microcontroller. It can detect intruders based on their physical presence. The system uses URM37v3.2 ultrasonic sensor which is connected to MCU through rs232 serial communication. To rotate sensor for wide coverage range, the system is equipped with Parallax servomotor. For user interface, there are LCD and keypad wired to PORTC

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Eye in the Sky Security System

Eye in the Sky Security System Using Atmel Mega32

Introduction We have used the Atmel Mega32 AVR microcontroller to construct an affordable, high end security system designed to protect valuables in a single room of a house or property. According to national surveys conducted by the department of Justice, property crimes are ten times more prevalent in the United States than violent crimes. On the Cornell

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Home Security System

Home Security System Using Atmel Mega32

Introduction This is a digital home security system with voice feature which can monitor room temperature, smoke, motion, and windows & doors. The goal of this project is to utilize the after-market parts and build an integrated home security system. Besides traditional magnetic switch equipped on doors and windows, we have also incorporated temperature sensor,

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Automatic Railway Gate Controller

Automatic Railway Gate Controller with High Speed Alerting System Using Atmega

The main aim of this project is to operate and control the unmanned railway gate in the proper manner in order to avoid the accidents in the unmanned railway crossing. In a country like ours where there are many unmanned railway crossings, accidents are increasing day by day. These train accidents are due to the

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