You'll need an Arduino along with a bunch of various sensors to get the project rolling, and once it's all set up you'll have a simple, but cheap system to monitor your home.

Seeking students for projects prototyping a set of self-powered embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. These projects will sharpen your hardware and software skills.

SJEC-AICTE IDEA lab in collaboration with Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at St Joseph ...