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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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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

Voice AI


There was a time when turning something on/off using a smart phone was exciting. Times have changed and things have evolved quite a bit since in the space of voice AI. A lot of people use their voice to do a lot of things, right from making notes, building their grocery lists, to searching the internet. We no longer use hands for mundane activities.

"Look Ma, No hands!"

What's next? Think of it and it happens? I would love to be alive to see that, as I could do things at the speed of thought.

If you are new to the world of Voice AI, you can start looking up Amazon Alexa, Google Now/Google Assistant, Apple Siri, or Windows Cortana to see what I am talking about. Since we are going to work with Amazon Alexa in this chapter, we will explore only that.

Amazon recently launched a couple of devices named Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot (recently made available in India too), which are smart speakers, enabled by Alexa, Amazon's voice AI software. If you want to experience Alexa for yourself...