The Arduino group has highlighted a challenge showcasing the pliability of its Arduino Cloud platform, via automated management of a Honeywell Evohome heating system — with out the necessity for any Arduino boards in any respect.
“In immediately’s fast-paced world, the comfort and luxury of a wise dwelling have turn out to be paramount. Monitoring techniques supply us a technique to streamline every day duties, optimize vitality utilization, and in the end result in extra comfy and cost-effective dwelling,” the Arduino group claims by means of background to the challenge, highlighted on the official weblog this week. “One of many key areas the place sensible techniques shine is in heating management, permitting us to optimize temperature ranges whereas protecting vitality consumption in verify and our invoice below management.”
Node-RED can function an middleman between industrial units and the Arduino Cloud, as this challenge proves. (📷: D. Beaumonte)
To exhibit that, the group has highlighted a challenge by D. Beaumonte which integrates a Honeywell Evohome sensible dwelling heating system with the Arduino Cloud, utilizing a Node-RED flowgraph to hyperlink the 2 and automate any variety of duties based mostly on the standing of the heating system at any given time. Considerably unusually for an Arduino challenge, although, there are not any Arduino boards concerned in any respect: every part is finished utilizing solely software program alongside the inventory Honeywell Evohome {hardware}.
“Arduino Cloud is a superb resolution for [automation], however integrating exterior platforms generally is a bit difficult, particularly with many industrial merchandise missing direct integration,” Beaumonte explains. “That is the place Node-RED involves the rescue! It helps us redirect and handle the site visitors between these industrial merchandise and Arduino Cloud.”
In Beaumonte’s challenge, an area or cloud-based Node-RED occasion is used to hyperlink the Arduino Cloud and Homewell Evohome platforms — utilizing Honeywell’s developer-centric utility programming interface (API). As soon as linked, the Evohome knowledge will be built-in into an Arduino Cloud dashboard — with or with out knowledge from different suitable units — and automations created relying on the info obtained.
Information from the Evohome system are introduced within the Arduino Cloud dashboard, and may set off automations. (📷: D. Beaumonte)
“By embracing the facility of sensible dwelling monitoring techniques, akin to Honeywell Evohome, and mixing it with cloud platforms just like the Arduino Cloud and the versatile integration capabilities of Node-RED,” the Arduino group claims, “you possibly can create an ecosystem that optimizes temperature, enhances consolation, and considerably reduces vitality consumption.”
Beaumonte’s full write-up is now out there on the Arduino Venture Hub, with supply code on GitHub.