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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a selection of third-party libraries that we can use in our ESP32 projects. We learned that we can use LittleFS as an alternative to SPIFFS, nlohmann/json as a modern JSON library, Miniz for data compression, and FlatBuffers to share data between different platforms and architectures. LVGL has a special place among them, such that it is the framework to use if you want to create an amazing graphical interface for the users of your product. The ESP-IDF Components library is another popular library for ESP32 developers and it provides many device drivers that we can employ in our projects. Finally, we talked about some important frameworks by Espressif.

They provide a head-start and make life much easier when commencing a new ESP32 project. The examples in this chapter also showed us different methods of importing third-party libraries in our projects so that we can apply them when we need other libraries in the next project.

The next chapter...