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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

IFTTT and IoT


This reactive pattern can be easily applied to certain situations. For example, if a patient falls down, then call an ambulance, or if the temperature goes below 15 degrees, then turn off the AC, and so on. These are simple rules that we define that can help us automate a lot of processes.

In IoT, rules engines are key to automating most monotonous tasks. In this chapter, we are going to build a simple hardcoded rules engine that will continuously monitor the incoming data. If the incoming data matches any of our rules, it will execute a response.

Note

What we are building is a similar concept to ifttt.com (https://ifttt.com/discover), but is very specific to IoT devices that are present inside our framework. IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/discover) has no relation to what we are building in our book.