XMPP & Home Automation.

[matthias] from intuity media lab put together a nice bit on controlling office lights with xmpp from his android phone. in the article, he explains the components involved in the project, why he chose xmpp, and lists everything you need to replicate it. the project makes use of a wide variety of tools and libraries, weaving together code from multiple languages to achieve its goal. overall, his project is a welcome change in a world full of twitter-based solutions.

The goal: Learn how to make things talk
In our ongoing process of analyzing and playing with the Internet of Things we had a deeper look at emerging technologies and trends in this context. In our office In our playground for the new ecology of things we wanted to experience what it means to make things communicate. It started with a couple of questions: How can we make things talk? How can we make them talk to each other? And how can we make this happen in real time? What’s the perfect technology to build or prototype applications for the Internet of Things? And how to let them talk to people. In order to do so we got our hands dirty and started with a simple setup.

More info @ http://blog.intuitymedialab.eu/2009/08/27/lab….p/

Via: HackaDay.com & intuitymedialab.eu

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