So what can you do with Iota?

Iota is a simple framework that is flexible enough to cover many different uses.

Home automation

Perhaps the most obvious use case is to automate your home.

Create rules based on the time, the light levels, temperature, humidity or anything else you can sense to activate lights, open blinds or even send emails.

• Put a sensor on your cat door and tweet your cat’s movements.
• Put a light sensor in the window and open the blinds when the sun is shining, close it when it gets dark
• Use temperature sensors in each room, and find which room is the coldest, use the information to improve that room’s insulation or heating

Air quality measurement

Using a CO2 sensor and particulate sensor, work out the air quality both in and outside of your home.

Plant management

Track the water level for your plants, turn a pump on to water them when they are dry and you have an automated garden.

Smart toys

If you have young children, you probably have many toys that sing and flash, even when you trip over them in the middle of the night.

Add an Iota node to them and make a rule to turn them off after a certain time automatically, or even control them from your phone when play time is over!

Smart remote control

An Iota node with an IR LED can become a remote control for your TV, DVD player etc.

A few rules later and you can have sequences that turn your TV and DVD player on, wait a few seconds, switch to the DVD input and then hit play.

Now you can control it all from your phone, instead of juggling remote controls.

Iota isn’t limited to a set task, its simple design allows your creativity to be the decider in what it becomes.