Grafana

Home Assistant is an open-source Smart Home platform supporting Philips Hue, Xiaomi, Google Nest, and 3,000+ brands with powerful automation, InfluxDB data logging, and full local privacy control.

Home Assistant offers advantages over other Smart Home platforms — complete privacy, full control, support for 3,000+ brands, and complex automation with no subscription fees.

Modern smart homes go beyond convenience — they become comprehensive family health care systems, from air quality detection and sleep tracking to emergency alerts for elderly members.

A technical professional guide to installing Home Assistant on RPi5 with Node-RED, AppDaemon, Homebridge, MQTT Broker, and Grafana for a smart home system integrated with a fresh air system.

A systematic guide to Smart Home development with IoT — from network infrastructure and compatible device selection to sensor installation and setting up energy and health automations.

Design a unified smart home dashboard architecture using Mosquitto MQTT broker, Node-RED for data flow, InfluxDB time-series database, and Grafana for visualisation — consolidating security, air quality, and elderly monitoring data into a single dashboard.

A Smart Caregiver Dashboard centralizes all elderly resident health data into a single IoT platform, giving professional caregivers real-time access to vitals and activity logs while families receive morning summary reports via LINE OA—coordinating professional and family care without redundant monitoring.