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Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 - Second Edition

By : Vedat Ozan Oner
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Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 - Second Edition

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By: Vedat Ozan Oner

Overview of this book

ESP32, a low-cost and energy-efficient system-on-a-chip microcontroller, has become the backbone of numerous WiFi devices, fueling IoT innovation. This book offers a holistic approach to building an IoT system from the ground up, ensuring secure data communication from sensors to cloud platforms, empowering you to create production-grade IoT solutions using the ESP32 SoC. Starting with IoT essentials supported by real-world use cases, this book takes you through the entire process of constructing an IoT device using ESP32. Each chapter introduces new dimensions to your IoT applications, covering sensor communication, the integration of prominent IoT libraries like LittleFS and LVGL, connectivity options via WiFi, security measures, cloud integration, and the visualization of real-time data using Grafana. Furthermore, a dedicated section explores AI/ML for embedded systems, guiding you through building and running ML applications with tinyML and ESP32-S3 to create state-of-the-art embedded products. This book adopts a hands-on approach, ensuring you can start building IoT solutions right from the beginning. Towards the end of the book, you'll tackle a full-scale Smart Home project, applying all the techniques you've learned in real-time. Embark on your journey to build secure, production-grade IoT systems with ESP32 today!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Understanding the Development Tools

After getting a quick overview of Espressif’s ESP32 technology in the first chapter, we are now ready to start on some development with the real hardware. For this, we need to understand the basics and how to use the available tools for the job. It is a learning process and takes some time; however, we’ll have acquired the fundamental knowledge and gained hands-on experience to develop actual applications on ESP32 by the end of the chapter.

In this chapter, we’re going to install the development environment on our machines and use our development kits to run and debug the applications. The topics covered are as follows:

  • ESP-IDF
  • PlatformIO
  • FreeRTOS
  • Debugging
  • Unit testing

Let’s start by looking into the development framework by Espressif Systems, ESP-IDF.