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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

Sharing data over secure MQTT

A paramount concept in cyber security is how to secure data in transit and at rest. Data at rest means any information that is stored on a non-volatile memory, such as a flash or hard drive. Data can be structured data, for example, a SQL database, or any type of file. Data in transit means bytes that are being transferred over a medium, such as a wireless network. These definitions perfectly apply to IoT. Data is at every step of an IoT product, starting from collecting environmental data via sensors and transferring them to a backend or cloud service for further processing and storage. It doesn’t stop there; we would need to share it with other endpoints, such as mobile applications. The nature of data affects the product design decisions at every single step. Below is a list of items along with questions that we can ask during the design phase to help reveal the nature of the data:

  • The type, frequency, and volume of data collected...