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Internet of Things with Python

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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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

Understanding the relationship between Internet of Things and Big Data


Big Data is watching us. We are generating valuable data each time we perform an action without even knowing that. Every time we tap, click, tweet, stop on a red light signal, hop on a bus, or perform an action caught by the millions of real-time sensors in any city around the world, we are generating valuable data. We interact with IoT devices that have sensors, collect data, and publish it to the Cloud. In order to analyze and process Big Data, managers, architects, developers, and system administrators require many skills that were not necessary for applications that worked with smaller data sets.

We have been working with examples that collected data from the real world through sensors and published it to the Cloud. We also published messages that include data from sensors and commands that have to be processed by code running on an IoT device. Sometimes, we are retrieving data from the sensors every second. Thus,...