The recipes in this chapter show how devices and sensors – things – attached to the Raspberry Pi can be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT).
The (IoT) describes the Internet when it is being used to enable physical objects – Things – to exchange data. When connected to the Internet, the Raspberry Pi can participate in the IoT, exchanging real-time data using its general-purpose input/output (GPIO) and other hardware interfaces. This chapter has a collection of recipes that show how the Raspberry Pi can participate in the Internet of Things.
The recipes in this chapter are specific to the Raspberry Pi. They utilize the hardware interfaces of the Raspberry Pi – the GPIO pins. The concepts can be used with other Linux computers; however, the instructions are specific to the Raspberry Pi.
After completing the recipes in this chapter, you will have configured and controlled devices and sensors attached directly to the Raspberry Pi and via the GrovePi hardware system. You will...