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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

Communicating over MQTT

Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a many-to-many communication protocol with a message broker as the mediator. There are publishers that send messages to the topics on the broker, and there are subscribers that receive messages from the topics that they subscribe to. A node can be a publisher and subscriber at the same time:

Figure 6.6: MQTT communication model

For MQTT, TCP is the underlying transport protocol and TLS can be configured for communication security.

Let’s see how MQTT works with a simple example. The goal in this example is to publish sensor data to an MQTT broker running in the local network and control the sensor features remotely by connecting to the broker with an MQTT client running on another machine. As listed in Technical requirements, the broker is Mosquitto. We begin with installing the broker.

Installing the MQTT broker

The mosquitto installation package comes with an MQTT broker, a publisher...