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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

Functional examples (putting it all together)


A collection of sensors is fairly useless unless the data they collect can be transmitted and processed. Whether that is a local embedded controller or sent upstream to a cloud, more hardware is needed to build the system. Typically, the sensors will use established IO interface and communication systems, such as I2C, SPI, UART, SPI, or other low-speed IOs. Other devices such as video systems will need much faster IO to maintain high resolution and fast video frame rates such as MIPI, USB, or even PCI-Express. To communicate wirelessly, the sensors will need to be used with wireless transport hardware like Bluetooth, Zigbee, or 802.11. All this requires extra componentry, which we will cover in this section.

Functional example – TI SensorTag CC2650

The Texas Instruments CC2650 SensorTag is a good example of an IoT sensor module for development, prototyping, and design. SensorTag has the following features and sensors in the package:

  • Sensor input...