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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

Wireless personal area network standards


This section will explore three relevant wireless personal area networks in the IoT space. A good portion of this section will be dedicated to Bluetooth as it provides a significant number of features and has a very deep presence in the IoT ecosphere. Additionally, Bluetooth 5.0 adds many features and abilities not seen before in the Bluetooth specification and provides range, power, speed, and connectivity that make it the strongest WPAN solution for many use cases. Zigbee, Z-Wave, and IEEE 802.15.4-based networks will also be investigated.

It is also helpful to know that the term WPAN is overloaded. Originally, it was to be a literal body and personal area network on a specific individual connected to wearable devices, but it has now extended its meaning.

802.15 standards

Many of the protocols and network models described in this section are based upon or have a foundation in the IEEE 802.15 working groups. The 802.15 group was initially formed to...