Author: R-B

Harvesting useful energy from municipal waste or our daily garbage is common around the world. In some developed countries, only 1 percent of household waste is dumped to landfills, while the remaining garbage is either recycled or incinerated in power plants to generate electricity. Junk...

With the advent of IoT technologies and decreasing cost of wireless sensors, the use of remote healthcare monitoring systems is growing rapidly, thereby allowing health care access to more people at affordable costs. To illustrate the concept of IoT based patient monitoring, Raj from...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is the most commonly used internet time protocol for synchronizing locally running clocks to a more accurate reference clock server. In United States, the official time is provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST...

ESP8266 has made it possible for makers to develop IoT applications in much simpler and more inexpensive ways. EasyESP-1 is a new ESP8266 prototyping board, specially designed for beginners by Raj from Embedded Lab. With an onboard USB-to-Serial converter pre-installed, EasyESP-1 does...

Although there are so many cloud IoT platforms (ThingSpeak, thinger.io, TESPA.io, Xively, … ) available in the market, each offering APIs and tools to allow the Arduino and ESP8266 users to directly upload their sensor readings online for real-time visualization and global access,...

In this tutorial, I have described how to use a 16x32 RGB matrix panel with Arduino Uno for colorful display of environmental data captured locally using Bosch BME280 sensor. BME280 is a fully integrated environmental unit from Bosch that combines sensors for pressure, humidity, and...

The advent of Internet of Things in recent years has made everyday objects smart and easily connectable to the internet. It has allowed us to automate our home by monitoring and controlling home appliances such as lights, sprinklers, thermostat, door locks, security systems, and many...

Programmable thermostats are cool things. They let you set the room temperature according to your schedule and will automatically make those adjustments for you. If you use them the way they’re intended to, they could be a great way to save on home energy costs. They work perfectly...