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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

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

Introducing CherryPy – a minimalist Python web framework


For our project, we will use the CherryPy Python library (be aware that it is CherryPy with a "y", not CherryPi with an "i").

What is CherryPy?

According to their website, CherryPy is a Pythonic, object-oriented web framework. CherryPy gives developers the power to build web applications as if they were building any object-oriented Python program. In true Python style, CherryPy programs have less code and are developed in less time than other web frameworks.

Who uses CherryPy?

Some of the companies that use CherryPy include the following:

  • Netflix: Netflix uses CherryPy in its infrastructure through RESTful API calls. Other Python libraries used by Netflix include Bottle and SciPy.
  • Hulu: CherryPy is used for some of Hulu's projects.
  • Indigo Domotics: Indigo Domotics is a home automation company that uses the CherryPy framework.

Installing CherryPy

We will use Python's pip3 package management system to install CherryPy.

Note

A package management...