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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

In this world of technology upgrades, IoT is currently leading with its promise to make the world a more smarter and efficient place. This book will show you how to build simple IoT solutions that will help you to understand how this technology works. We would not only explore the IoT solution stack, but we will also see how to do it with the world’s most misunderstood programming language - JavaScript. Using Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) as the base to build all the projects, you will begin with learning about the fundamentals of IoT and then build a standard framework for developing all the applications covered in this book. You will then move on to build a weather station with temperature, humidity and moisture sensors and further integrate Alexa with it. Further, you will build a smart wearable for understanding the concept of fall detection. You will then extend it with the 'If This Then That' (IFTTT) rules engine to send an email on fall detection. Finally, you will be working with the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module and surveillance with a bit of facial detection using Amazon Rekognition platform. At the end of the book, you will not only be able to build standalone exciting IoT applications but also learn how you can extend your projects to another level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

About the Author

Arvind Ravulavaru is a platform architect at Ubiconn IoT Solutions, with over 9 years of experience in software development and 2 years in hardware and product development. For the last 5 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side, and for the last couple of years in IoT, building a platform for rapidly developing IoT solutions, named the IoT Suitcase. Prior to this, he has worked on big data, cloud computing, and orchestration.

Arvind has already written couple of books named Learning Ionic and Learning Ionic - Second Edition, which talks about building Mobile Hybrid applications using Ionic framework v1, v2, and v3.

First off, I would like to thank all the people who have purchased my Learning Ionic and Learning Ionic second edition books. The support from you guys has been tremendous. I really appreciate it. I would like to thank the Packt team for doing an amazing job in releasing and promoting the book. A very special thanks to my 4-month-old lab, Dexter for letting me write my book without bothering much to play with him at nights. Thanks to the team at Ubiconn IoT Solutions who were behind me in getting this book out. Special thanks to Ramesh Noothi, for helping me set up the hardware as well Nagesh Adicharla, who has also created all the schematic images for the book. Last but not the least, thanks to the entire team at Packt for supporting me. I sincerely thank my content development editor, Eisha Dsouza and technical editor, Varsha Shivhare for their awesome support. Thanks to Reshma Raman and the production team for taking the book to press. Special thanks to my family, without whose support this book wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you.