Schwartz - Arduino home automation projects automate your home using the powerful Arduino platform

Santiago Reig Chiva received his BEng degree in Electronics Engineering from Universidad de La Rioja (Spain). He is currently finishing his MEng degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Talca (Chile), thanks to a merit-based scholarship.

He has been interested in technology ever since he was a child. He had his first contact with Arduino just before he started university; this got him involved in open source software and hardware.

In his free time, he develops open source projects with Arduino and Python, which he publishes at his personal website, http://kungfulabs.com. He also introduces kids to technology and programming through extracurricular activities and summer camps.

Charalampos Doukas is a researcher and IoT Maker. He started playing with sensors and Arduinos in 2008 while trying to capture and transmit vital signs. He is passionate about combining different hardware systems with software and services using the Internet. He helps in spreading the knowledge about open source software and hardware by organizing sessions at workshops and conferences.

He has built many projects around home monitoring and automation. He is currently contributing hardware nodes for Node-RED and has also authored the book Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, CreateSpace .

When he is not playing with sensors and actuators, he manages European research projects at CREATE-NET in Trento, Italy.

Francis Perea is a Professional Education Professor at Consejera de Educacin de la Junta de Andaluca in Spain with more than 14 years of experience.

He specializes in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with multimedia, a little design studio in Crdoba where he works as a system administrator and the main web developer.

He was also a technical reviewer for SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization , Thomas Bleicher and Robin de Jongh , and Internet of Things with the Arduino Yn , Marco Schwartz , both by Packt Publishing.

When not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering at his workshop, he can be found running or riding his bike through the tracks and hills or, as a beekeeper, taking care of his bees in Axarqua County where he lives.

I would like to thank my wife, Salom, and our three kidsPaula, lvaro, and Javifor all the support they give me, even though we are all busy. There are no words to express my gratitude to them.

I would also like to thank my colleagues at multimedia and patient students. The need to be at the level they demand is what keeps me going forward.