© John C. Shovic 2016

John C. Shovic, Raspberry Pi IoT Projects, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1377-3_4

4. Changing Your Environment with IOT and iBeacons

John C. Shovic1 

(1)Liberty Lake, Washington, USA

Chapter Goal: Gather Location Data on Your IOT device: Locate Where You Are and Deliver Location Dependent Data and Conduct Actions on Where You Are

Topics Covered in This Chapter:

  • iBeacons and how can you use them

  • Detecting and reading iBeacons from the Raspberry Pi

  • Finding your location – Trilateralization in a fuzzy world

  • Displaying your Location on a Control Panel

  • Turning lights off and on by your location

In Chapter 3, you saw a flexible, solar powered system to deliver data to the IOT (in this case including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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