Lately I discovered IoT and Clayster for my self.
One good way to learn new things is to resolve some problem using new technology. So I thought to build system detects is somebody is behind in my display. And I’d like to detect it over XMPP.
So for prototyping Raspberry Pi is suitable piece of hardware. Also I used ultrasonic sensors – hc-sr04
Connected with RP using schema
Source: http://www.modmypi.com/blog/hc-sr04-ultrasonic-range-sensor-on-the-raspberry-pi
And I can read readings over XMPP
And finally the most coolest thing – HomeArena by Clayster