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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

Developing Alexa skill


In the last section, we have seen how to build a smart socket and integrate it with our existing smart weather station. In this section, we are going to build a new skill for interfacing our smart devices with Amazon Alexa.

We are going to create a new skill named smarty app and then add two voice models to it:

  • To get the latest weather status
  • To turn on/off the socket

Note

If you are new to Alexa and its skill development, I would recommend watching the following series before you continue: Developing Alexa skills: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2KJmkHeYQTO6ci5KF08mvHYdAZu2jgkJ

To give a quick overview of our skill creation, we are going to follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Amazon developer portal and create and set up a new skill
  2. Train the voice model
  3. Write the required business logic in AWS lambda service
  4. Deploy and test the setup

So, let's get started.

Creating skill

The first thing we are going to do is log in to https://developer.amazon.com. Once we are logged in...