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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

Summary


While there is some commonality between the types of long-range communication technologies, they also are targeting different use cases and segments. The IoT architect should choose wisely which long-range system they intend to adopt. Like other components of the IoT system, the LPWAN is difficult to change once deployed. Considerations in picking the correct LPWAN include:

  • What data rate does the IoT deployment need to use?
  • Can the solution scale with the same LPWAN across regions? Is there proper coverage or does it need to be built?
  • What range of transmission is appropriate?
  • Is there any latency requirement for this IoT solution? Can the solution work with very high (multiple seconds) latencies?
  • Are the IoT endpoints battery powered and what is the cost of servicing them?
  • What are the cost constraints of the endpoints?  

Note

A few other LPWAN technologies also exist such as Ingenu in the USA and the  Weightless Technologies (i.e. Weight-N, Weightless-W, and Weightless-P). Weightless...