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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

Chapter 5. Smart Agriculture and Voice AI

In Chapter 4, Smart Agriculture, we have seen one of the mainstream areas in which IoT can create an impact; the agriculture sector. In this chapter, we are going to take that to a new level. Using a voice AI engine such as Amazon Alexa, we are going to talk to the smart weather station that we have built.

For example, a farmer can ask Alexa `Alexa, ask smarty app the moisture level in my farm, and Alexa would go the moisture level in your farm is 20%. Consider watering now. Then, the farmer would go, Alexa, ask smarty app to turn on my motor and Alexa would turn it on. Fascinating, isn't it?

Generally, voice AI based IoT is more common in the concepts of smart home and smart office. I wanted to implement it with smart agriculture.

In this chapter, we are going to work on the following:

  • Understand Amazon Alexa
  • Build an IoT.js controlled water motor
  • Understand AWS lambda
  • Develop a skillset for Amazon Alexa
  • Test the weather station as well as the water motor...