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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
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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

Summary


We began this chapter by discussing some of the various web services that are available. We discussed the work of some of the biggest companies in information technology in the fields of artificial intelligence and IoT.

Both Amazon and Google are aiming to become the platforms that IoT devices connect with. Using its vast resources, Amazon, through its Amazon Web Services, provides significant documentation and support for its offerings. Not to be outdone, Google is also building a powerful platform for IoT. Which platform wins out remains to be seen.

IBM's foray into artificial intelligence centers on Watson, their Jeopardy! playing champion. Winning game shows against the best human players is of course not the ultimate goal for Watson. However, the knowledge and technology built from such pursuits will find its way into areas we can only imagine today. Watson may prove to be the so-called killer app for the IoT world.

There is probably nothing that people talk about more than the...