parikshitpagare/smart-home-automation-rtos

This project is a classic 'academic' or 'hobbyist' implementation of IoT basics. With 94 stars and 14 forks, it has served as a helpful reference for students, but it offers zero technical defensibility in a professional or commercial context. The use of MIT App Inventor—a drag-and-drop educational tool for Android—immediately signals that this is not a production-grade system. From a competitive standpoint, it is severely outclassed by mature ecosystems like ESPHome, Tasmota, or Home Assistant, which offer far deeper integration, security, and protocol support (MQTT, Matter, Zigbee). The project has had zero velocity for a significant period (age 1000+ days), suggesting it is a static portfolio piece. The shift in the smart home industry toward the Matter standard and IP-based mesh networking (Thread) renders Bluetooth-only, point-to-point RTOS implementations like this functionally obsolete for anything beyond simple local experiments.