Many of us take the technologies that the internet is built on top of for granted. When we visit our favorite websites, we care little that the web pages we are viewing are crafted for our eyes. However, lying underneath is the internet protocol suite of communication protocols. Machines can also take advantage of these protocols and communicate machine to machine through web services.
In this chapter, we will continue our journey toward connecting devices through the Internet of Things (IoT). We will explore web services and the various technologies behind them. We will conclude our chapter with some Python code where we call a live weather service and extract information in real time.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Cloud services for IoT
- Writing a Python program to extract live weather data