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The community Showcase continues: Freedomotic, modular and free Home Automation

Posted by openPicus | On: Jan 10 2013

Today we wanted to present another project from our amazing community: Freedomotic.

Home automation has always been hardware-centric, vendor-bound, and the solutions available on the market often are hard to adapt and become easily obsolete. Many have strong vendor lock-in for the end user and high prices others have not enough flexibility due to standardized automations or “hard-coded” features.

That’s exactly the same concern that pushed us to develop the Enocean Nest few months ago.

In response to all this, the guys at Freedomotic built an open, flexible, scalable and mashups oriented software that can interact with well known standard building automation protocols as long as with DIY solutions.

Due to its abstraction layer and modular architecture it can be used to manage small appartments as well as complex buildings like museums and corporate offices. You can automate your home or easily create context and environment aware services for your customers.

Freedomotic supports popular building automation technologies like BTicino OpenWebNet,

Modbus RTU, X10 as well as custom projects using Arduino devices, DIY boards, third party frontends for Android, text to speech (TTS) engines, motion detection using IP cameras, social networks integration and much more… All this features are available from Freedomotic Plugin marketplace.

Freedomotic also features two fully functional plugins to interact with openPicus Flyport technology: both are described in our wiki here: http://wiki.openpicus.com/index.php?title=Freedomotic_Plugin

The first requires only a Flyport board controlling its inputs/outputs lines and the second uses a Grove Nest to create a complete sensors platform for environmental control.

Now, if you want to use Flyport for your smart, connected home automation projects you can use our Enocean Nest or you can just create your custom objects and use Freedomotic framework.

See the example video!