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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


This chapter has provided foundation material to understand the theory and limitations of wireless communication. More information and deeper study are encouraged to understand the second and third order constraints of data transport. The architect should understand different models and constraints of wireless signals, RF energy dispersion, range, and the fundamental limits of information theory provided by Shannon's law. The architect should also understand the frequency space governance and allocation strategy. This chapter also provides a dialog and vernacular that will be reused in the upcoming chapters on WPAN, WLAN, and WAN.

The next chapter will start the journey of IoT data from the sensor to the cloud on its first hop across a near range personal area network. We build up from there to WLAN and WAN systems.