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Intel Edison Projects

By : Avirup Basu
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Intel Edison Projects

By: Avirup Basu

Overview of this book

Change the way you look at embedded electronics with Intel Edison. It is a small computing platform packed with a set of robust features to deliver hands-on performance, durability, and software support. This book is a perfect place to kickstart development and rapid prototyping using Intel Edison. It will start by introducing readers to the Intel Edison board and explaining how to get started with it. You will learn how to build a mini weather station, which will help you to acquire temperature and smoke level and push it to the IoT platform. Then you will see how to build a home automation device and control your appliances using an Android app. Furthermore, we will build a security system using a webcam to detect faces and perform voice recognition. Toward the end, the book will demonstrate how you can build two robots, which will be based on different line sensing sensors and can be controlled by a PC. The book will guide the readers through each and every step of execution of a project, using Intel Edison.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Instructions or alerts (present on most IoT platforms)

In certain IoT platforms, we have certain ready-made solutions where we just need to call a certain web service and the connection is established. Internally, it may use REST APIs, but for the benefit of the user, they have come up with their own SDK where we implement.

Internally, a platform may follow either a REST call, MQTT, or Web Sockets. However, we just use an SDK where we don't implement it directly, and by using the platform's SDK, we are able to establish a connection. It is entirely platform-specific. Here, we are discussing one of the workarounds,where we use the MQTT protocol to control our devices directly without the use of any IoT platforms.