Home Automation Made Easy: Do It Yourself Know How Using UPB, Insteon, X10 and ZWave - Softcover

Brewer, Dennis C.

 
9780789751249: Home Automation Made Easy: Do It Yourself Know How Using UPB, Insteon, X10 and ZWave
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0789751240 ISBN 13: 9780789751249
Verlag: Que Publishing, 2013

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A new day is dawning in home automation. Using new technologies that are often controllable via smartphone, home automation has become far easier... and with multi-million-dollar marketing boosts from giant cable and telecom firms, it's finally going mainstream. You don't need to settle for "off-the-rack" solutions, though. You can customize the control of your own castle without paying monthly fees - and you can do more than your service providers might be ready to offer. Home Automation Made Easy : is first truly easy project guide to today's breakthrough home automation solutions. Unlike older books (which are obsolete and far from easy), this primer guides you step by step through using today's easier technologies - and if you can handle pliers, a screwdriver, and a computer, you already have all the skills you'll need. Dennis Brewer first makes sure you're comfortable with wiring basics and safety, and then guides you through installing, setting up, and using automation control software. Next, he walks you through several great DIY projects you can complete in a weekend (or less)! Before yo know it, you'll be controlling appliances, lighting, devices, home security, energy consumption, heating/cooling, and even your home entertainment center. Brewer covers phone interfaces, opportunities to expand, and even offerings from telecom and broadband providers. Home automation has never been this easy, this useful, or this much fun!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis C. Brewer is a technology enthusiast who has been associated with electrical and electronic projects since attending Washington Middle School in Calumet, Michigan.

 

His early technology experience included testing for and receiving an FCC commercial radio broadcast engineer license that allowed him to become a solo station operator announcer/engineer for WMPL AM/FM radio in Hancock, Michigan,. and finished service as a Chief Petty Officer Interior Communications Electrician to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree.

 

Dennis attended Michigan Technological University (MTU) and served simultaneous membership in the Michigan Army National Guard as a communication Sergeant First Class and a Cadet in the Michigan Technological University Army ROTC program. Upon graduation he was commissioned and a first Lieutenant, Combat Engineer Branch US Army Reserve.

 

Mr. Brewer’s employment in government service included the State of Michigan as a computer technology specialist with assignments in the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Department of Management and Budget, and Department of Information Technology. During his 12-year career in State of Michigan Government as a Novell (CNE) certified network engineer and information technology specialist, his experience included hands-on hardware, administration, network management and troubleshooting, consulting and planning services for state agencies, establishment of enterprise-level standards and procedures implementation, data security, and identity management. After retiring from state government, Dennis continued to pursue his interests in technology as an author and independent consultant.

 

Published books by Dennis C. Brewer include:

 

Build Your Own Free-to-Air (FTA) Satellite TV System, by Dennis C. Brewer (McGraw-Hill: Nov 8, 2011)

Wiring Your Digital Home For Dummies, by Dennis C. Brewer and Paul A. Brewer (For Dummies/Wiley: Oct 9, 2006)

Security Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance: Authorization, Authentication, and Access, by Dennis C. Brewer (Wiley: Oct 21, 2005)

Picture Yourself Networking Your Home or Small Office, by Dennis C. Brewer (Course Technology PTR: Dec 2, 2008)

Green My Home!: 10 Steps to Lowering Energy Costs and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint, by Dennis C. Brewer (Kaplan Publishing: Oct 7, 2008)

 

His magazine writing credits include topics on disaster recovery, defining adequate security controls, free satellite TV, and Sarbane s-Oxley controls.

 

For more information about this author and his current technology and writing projects, visit http://www.DennisCBrewer.info.

 

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Verlag
Que Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0789751240
ISBN 13 
9780789751249
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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