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Internet of Things with Python

By : Gaston C. Hillar
Book Image

Internet of Things with Python

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the way devices/things interact with each other. And when you have IoT with Python on your side, you'll be able to build interactive objects and design them. This book lets you stay at the forefront of cutting-edge research on IoT. We'll open up the possibilities using tools that enable you to interact with the world, such as Intel Galileo Gen 2, sensors, and other hardware. You will learn how to read, write, and convert digital values to generate analog output by programming Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) in Python. You will get familiar with the complex communication system included in the board, so you can interact with any shield, actuator, or sensor. Later on, you will not only see how to work with data received from the sensors, but also perform actions by sending them to a specific shield. You'll be able to connect your IoT device to the entire world, by integrating WiFi, Bluetooth, and Internet settings. With everything ready, you will see how to work in real time on your IoT device using the MQTT protocol in python. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop IoT prototypes with Python, libraries, and tools.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Internet of Things with Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up components in Intel IoT Analytics


Go to the web browser in which you are working with the Intel IoT Analytics dashboard, click on the menu icon, select Account and the site will display the My Account page. Then, click on the Catalog tab and the site will display the components registered in the catalog grouped in the following three categories:

  • Humidity

  • Powerswitch

  • Temperature

Make sure that the Humidity components panel is expanded and click on humidity.v1.0. The site will display the Component definition dialog box for the humidity.v1.0 component, that is, the component named humidity whose version is 1.0. The following screenshot shows the values for the different fields in the component definition:

The humidity component version 1.0 represents a time series with ambient humidity level expressed in percentage. The Data type is Number, the Unit of measure is Percent (%), the Format is Float and the Display is Time Series. We can use this component for our ambient humidity level...