The Arduino workforce has highlighted a undertaking showcasing the flexibleness of its Arduino Cloud platform, by way of automated management of a Honeywell Evohome heating system — with out the necessity for any Arduino boards in any respect.
“In at present’s fast-paced world, the comfort and luxury of a wise residence have turn into paramount. Monitoring programs provide us a method to streamline every day duties, optimize vitality utilization, and in the end result in extra snug and cost-effective dwelling,” the Arduino workforce claims by means of background to the undertaking, highlighted on the official weblog this week. “One of many key areas the place sensible programs shine is in heating management, permitting us to optimize temperature ranges whereas preserving vitality consumption in examine and our invoice below management.”
Node-RED can function an middleman between industrial units and the Arduino Cloud, as this undertaking proves. (📷: D. Beaumonte)
To show that, the workforce has highlighted a undertaking by D. Beaumonte which integrates a Honeywell Evohome sensible residence 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 undertaking, although, there are not any Arduino boards concerned in any respect: all the pieces is completed utilizing solely software program alongside the inventory Honeywell Evohome {hardware}.
“Arduino Cloud is a wonderful 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 visitors between these industrial merchandise and Arduino Cloud.”
In Beaumonte’s undertaking, 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 information might be built-in into an Arduino Cloud dashboard — with or with out information from different suitable units — and automations created relying on the information acquired.
Information from the Evohome system are introduced within the Arduino Cloud dashboard, and might set off automations. (📷: D. Beaumonte)
“By embracing the ability of sensible residence monitoring programs, corresponding to Honeywell Evohome, and mixing it with cloud platforms just like the Arduino Cloud and the versatile integration capabilities of Node-RED,” the Arduino workforce claims, “you’ll be able to create an ecosystem that optimizes temperature, enhances consolation, and considerably reduces vitality consumption.”
Beaumonte’s full write-up is now accessible on the Arduino Mission Hub, with supply code on GitHub.
