Home Automation Reloaded

Kai KreuzerThe Smart Home guy

With more and more Smart Home and IoT devices hitting the market, one of the primary wishes of users is interoperability. As many vendors still prefer silo offerings, walled gardens and business-driven alliances, this wish remains mostly unheard. Over the past 6 years, the open source project openHAB has become one of the most popular solutions that connects to a multitude of different systems, comes with powerful automation rules and provides a single user interface for all devices to address such interoperability needs. Many new concepts are being introduced in openHAB version 2, which is currently under development and based on the Eclipse SmartHome framework. In this talk you will get a sneak preview of its modularity and extensibility, which gives you the full power to tailor your smart home for your personal needs.

Level:
INTERMEDIATE

Bio:
Kai Kreuzer is a Java and OSGi expert, a Home Automation enthusiast, founder of openHAB, project lead of Eclipse SmartHome and co-lead of the Eclipse IoT top-level project. He works as a Developer Evangelist in the Connected Home department of Deutsche Telekom AG and is a regular speaker at international conferences.