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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

Running a RESTful server on ESP32

Representational State Transfer (REST) is basically the client-server architecture for the web. It defines how a client and server communicate over a resource that the server exposes. In fact, we know it from the HTTP protocol as it implements the entire World Wide Web (WWW) document exchange services. A RESTful server publishes a REST API and clients consume it. A client sends a message, such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE, to the server for a resource, and the server replies to the client with an HTTP status code, such as 200 OK, 201 Created, or 404 Not Found. There exist many RESTful services on the internet; therefore, REST communication occupies an important place in IoT development. Mozilla provides many articles about HTTP here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP

We can employ ESP32 as either a RESTful server or a client. When it is a server, we run an HTTP server on ESP32, define resources, and provide handlers for the HTTP...