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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
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Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Summary


We began this chapter by discussing the various tools that are available for Python development in Raspbian. The quickest and easiest way to run Python is from the Terminal window. Since Python comes pre-installed in Raspbian, the python command in the Terminal prompt loads Python (Python 2, in this case). There is no need to set environment variables in order to have the command find the program. Python 3 is run from the Terminal by typing python3.

We also took a brief look at IDLE, the default IDE for Python development. IDLE stands for Integrated Development and Learning Environment and is an excellent tool for beginners to use when learning Python.

Thonny is another Python IDE that comes pre-installed with Raspbian. Thonny has excellent debug and variable introspection functionalities. It too is designed for beginning Python developers, however, its ease of use and object inspector make it ideal for the development of our projects. We will be using Thonny more as we progress through...