The purpose of this chapter was to prepare you for the following hands-on chapters, by giving you a list of materials that you will need, as well as installing all of the tools that we are going to be using.
Together, we set up an account on shiftr.io, the MQTT web service that we will be using throughout this book. We created a private namespace, together with a token. This makes it possible for you to have your own MQTT area, to which only you can publish MQTT messages. On the shiftr.io website, you can inspect all of the devices that are connected to your MQTT network, and the messages that are being sent to your namespace. You also learned how to deal with the problems that you encounter on the way, and where to look for solutions.
The knowledge that you have acquired in this chapter will help you immensely in the hands-on projects that we will explore in the...