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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

Introducing JavaScript cloud libraries


Let's start off by providing a background on JavaScript cloud libraries. JavaScript has been around since the dawn of the internet (1995, for argument's sake). It has become a language that can turn a HTML web page into a fully functioning desktop equivalent app. Personally, I find JavaScript to be one of the most useful programming languages out there (besides Python, of course).

Note

JavaScript was released in 1995 and was designed to work with the most popular web browser at the time, Netscape Navigator. It was originally called livescript, but the name was changed to JavaScript due to the use and support of Java within the Netscape Navigator browser. Despite the similar syntax, Java and JavaScript really have nothing to do with each other—a confusing fact that continues to this day.

Google Cloud

Through google-api-javascript-client, we may access Google Cloud services. Specifically, we may access the Google Compute Engine, which is a component of the...