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Intel Galileo Blueprints

By : Marco Schwartz
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Intel Galileo Blueprints

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Intel Galileo Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting Up the Galileo Board and the Development Environment
Index

Chapter 6. Internet of Things with Intel Galileo

In the last chapter, we learned how to interact with web APIs, such as Twitter. We were able to forward the measurements that we got from the sensors to our Twitter feed.

In this chapter, we will take advantage of what we learned in the previous chapter and raise the bar. We will integrate our Galileo board into an Internet of Things (IoT) framework.

IoT is an emerging and exciting technology, which is the interconnection of computers, mobile phones, tablets, and any computing device, to the Internet infrastructure. IoT fosters automation, faster cloud computing, supply chain connection between consumers and partners, and a whole lot more.

In the project completed in the previous chapter, we visualized the data locally. This time, we will do it on Cloud services.

In completing this project, there will be three major steps involved:

  1. First, we need to log data in the Cloud using Dweet.io.

  2. Then, we will give structure to the data and monitor it using...