This list may well be interested in this free presentation by Yara Senger at Skills Matter in London in a couple of weeks.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/jhome
EVENT DETAILS What:London Java Community:jHome: Using JavaEE and open-source hardware to automatize your houseWhere:The Skills Matter eXchange, Londonhttp://skillsmatter.com/location-details/java-jee/1268/96 When:21 Feb 2012 Starts at 18:30
jHome: Using JavaEE and open-source hardware to automatize your house During this presentation we will be showing how you can use Java EE and open-source hardware, like Arduino, to automatize your house. Using jHome, a complete Java EE 6 API for home automation, you can control lamps, wall sockets, electric gates and doors using Web App and Twitter.
We will not present a product! It's a complete solution that you can do it yourself with open-source hardware and software and you will have a lot of fun with Java EE 6 with this different usage context!
This talk will cover: - Introduction to Home Automation and open-source hardware - Project jHome
Cool demos: - Servlets controlling lamps - Controllling RGB with jQuery - Scheduling coffee-machine with EJB's - Using sounds and FFT(fast fourier transforming) to control your house
This is a basic talk and useful for any developer professional level. I'm not sure about "automatizing" anything, and no doubt this will all be very basic for some here, but of interest I hope.