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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

Setting up an account for text message transmission


In this section, we will connect to a text message transmission service and send a text message from our Raspberry Pi to our phone. We will use this information, and what we've learned so far about publishing sensory information, to create an enhancement to our security dashboard in Chapter 18, Building a Home Security Dashboard

Setting up a Twilio account

Twilio is a service that gives software developers the ability to create and receive text and phone calls programmatically through the use of its web service APIs. Let's start by setting up a Twilio account:

  1. In a web browser, navigate to www.twilio.com
  2. Click on the red sign up at the top-right corner of the page
  3. Enter the appropriate personal information and a password, and then select SMSArrival Alerts, and Python for the fields below the password:
  1. Provide a phone number to receive an authorization code via SMS, as follows:
  1. Enter the authorization code you receive, as shown here:
  1. The next...