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Smart Internet of Things Projects

By : Agus Kurniawan
Book Image

Smart Internet of Things Projects

By: Agus Kurniawan

Overview of this book

Internet of Things (IoT) is a groundbreaking technology that involves connecting numerous physical devices to the Internet and controlling them. Creating basic IoT projects is common, but imagine building smart IoT projects that can extract data from physical devices, thereby making decisions by themselves. Our book overcomes the challenge of analyzing data from physical devices and accomplishes all that your imagination can dream up by teaching you how to build smart IoT projects. Basic statistics and various applied algorithms in data science and machine learning are introduced to accelerate your knowledge of how to integrate a decision system into a physical device. This book contains IoT projects such as building a smart temperature controller, creating your own vision machine project, building an autonomous mobile robot car, controlling IoT projects through voice commands, building IoT applications utilizing cloud technology and data science, and many more. We will also leverage a small yet powerful IoT chip, Raspberry Pi with Arduino, in order to integrate a smart decision-making system in the IoT projects.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Smart Internet of Things Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with a GPS module for navigation


GPS is module that receives a certain location from a satellite. GPS is a good method for finding a location when outdoors. Several GPS satellites can be used in the GPS module.

In this section, we will try to access a location from a GPS module. Location information obtained from the satellite will be sent to a computer through Bluetooth.

We will use the U-blox NEO-6M Module to retrieve the location from the satellite. We will use the same Bluetooth module, HC-06, in this demo. A computer will listen to the GPS data from a robot. The GPS data that are sent are latitude and longitude coordinates.

I obtained a U-blox NEO-6M from dx.com (http://www.dx.com/p/gps-module-w-ceramic-passive-antenna-for-raspberry-pi-arduino-red-384916). This module is cheap, and you can buy it on Banggood, eBay and AliExpress.

A form of U-blox NEO-6M module is shown in the following figure:

U-blox NEO-6M Module provides TTL output so we can access the data easily. GPS data from...