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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

Knowledge required to complete this chapter


If you have jumped to this chapter without going through the projects in the previous chapters, let me outline the skills you need to complete the following projects. We will, of course, have to know how to get around the Raspbian OS in order to find our Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Note

After you have finished programming T.A.R.A.S, you may be inclined to take your new skills and compete against other people building Raspberry Pi robots. Pi Wars (https://piwars.org/) is such a place to do just that. Pi Wars is an international robotics competition that takes place in Cambridge in the UK. Up to 76 teams compete in challenge-based robotics competitions over the course of a weekend. Even though it is called Pi Wars, you can rest assured that you will not come back with a box of broken parts, as each of the competitions are non-destructive challenges. Check out https://piwars.org/, or search for Pi Wars videos on YouTube for more information...