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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

A quick overview of the Raspbian OS


The Raspbian desktop is similar to the desktops of other operating systems such as Windows and macOS. Clicking the top-left button drops down the application menu where you may access the various pre-installed programs. We may also shut down the Raspberry Pi from this menu:

The Chromium web browser

The second button from the left loads the Google Chromium web browser for the Raspberry Pi:

The Chromium browser is a lightweight browser that runs remarkably well on the Raspberry Pi:

The home folder

The two-folders button opens up a window showing the home folder:

The home folder is a great place to start when looking for files on your Raspberry Pi. In fact, when you take screenshots using either thescrotcommand or thePrintScreenbutton, the file is automatically stored in this folder:

The Terminal

The third button from the left opens up the Terminal. The Terminal permits command-line access to Raspberry Pi's files and programs:

It is from the command line where you...