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Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, 2nd Edition
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Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, 2nd Edition

by Maik Schmidt
January 2015
Beginner
324 pages
7h 42m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 11Creating a Burglar Alarm with Email Notification

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to access networking services with the Arduino in various ways. Adding networking capabilities to an Arduino enables you to create countless useful projects. In this chapter, you’ll use your newly gained knowledge to build a real-world project: a burglar alarm that uses email notification.

The burglar alarm will send you an email whenever it detects movement in your living room during your absence. To achieve this, you first have to learn how to send emails. You already know a lot about networking with an Arduino, so this won’t be too difficult.

You also need to know how to detect motion. So you’ll also learn how passive infrared (PIR) sensors ...

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