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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

In this world of technology upgrades, IoT is currently leading with its promise to make the world a more smarter and efficient place. This book will show you how to build simple IoT solutions that will help you to understand how this technology works. We would not only explore the IoT solution stack, but we will also see how to do it with the world’s most misunderstood programming language - JavaScript. Using Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) as the base to build all the projects, you will begin with learning about the fundamentals of IoT and then build a standard framework for developing all the applications covered in this book. You will then move on to build a weather station with temperature, humidity and moisture sensors and further integrate Alexa with it. Further, you will build a smart wearable for understanding the concept of fall detection. You will then extend it with the 'If This Then That' (IFTTT) rules engine to send an email on fall detection. Finally, you will be working with the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module and surveillance with a bit of facial detection using Amazon Rekognition platform. At the end of the book, you will not only be able to build standalone exciting IoT applications but also learn how you can extend your projects to another level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Setting up Raspberry Pi 3


Let us get started with the schematics.

Set up Raspberry Pi 3 and the sensors as shown here:

Here is a table showing these connections:

Raspberry Pi and MCP3208

Refer to the following table:

Raspberry Pi pin number - pin name

MCP3208 pin number - pin name

1 - 3.3V

16 - VDD

1 - 3.3V

15 - AREF

6 - GND

14 - AGND

23 - GPIO11, SPI0_SCLK

13 - CLK

21 - GPIO09, SPI0_MISO

12 - DOUT

19 -GPIO10, SPI0_MOSI

11 - DIN

24 - GPIO08, CEO

10 - CS

6 - GND

9 - DGND

Moisture sensor and MCP3208

Refer to the following table:

MCP3208 pin number - pin name

Sensor name - pin number

1 - A0

Rain sensor - A0

2 - A1

Moisture sensor - A0

Raspberry Pi and DHT11

Refer to the following table:

Raspberry Pi number - pin name

Sensor name - pin number

3 - GPIO2

DHT11 - Data

 

All grounds and all 3.3V are connected to a common point.

Once we have connected the sensors as shown previously, we will write the code needed to interface with the sensors.

Before we go further, we are going to copy the entire Chapter 2, IoTFW.js - I, and Chapter 3...