Perry Lea has spent 21 years at Hewlett Packard as a distinguished technologist and chief architect. He then served as a distinguished member of technical staff and strategic director at Micron Technologies leading a team working on advanced computing devices. He is currently a technical director at Cradlepoint where he leads advancement and research in IoT and fog compute.
Perry has degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and an EE degree from Columbia University. He is a senior member of IEEE and a senior member/distinguished speaker of ACM. He has 8 patents with 40 pending.
Thanks to my wife, Dawn, and family and friends for being the support team to complete this book. I wish to thank Sandra Capri of Ambient Sensors for critical review and comment on sensors and near-range communication. I also thank David Rush from Cradlepoint for the comment on long-range connectivity and cellular systems. Finally, a thank you to the numerous consortiums and technical communities, such as IEEE and ACM.
Parkash Karki is a principal architect and product development manager with over 20 years of experience in the IT field. With a BSc (Hons) physics from the University of Delhi and master of computer applications from BIAS, he is PMP certified and also holds other certifications in Microsoft technologies. His has majorly worked on various Microsoft and open source technologies with vast experience in DevOps and Azure Cloud. As a DevOps and Cloud architect, he helps his customers adopt them well. He is very passionate about IoT, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies.
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