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Internet of Things from Scratch

By : Renaldi Gondosubroto
Book Image

Internet of Things from Scratch

By: Renaldi Gondosubroto

Overview of this book

Develop the skills essential for building Internet of Things solutions with this indispensable guide. In an era where industries heavily rely on IoT, this book will quickly familiarize you with its foundations, widespread use, implementation guided by best practices, and the crucial technologies that allow it to work effectively. Starting with the use of IoT in real-life scenarios, this book offers comprehensive insights into basic IoT hardware, protocols, and technologies. You’ll then learn about architecting and implementing solutions such as wireless sensor networks, cloud computing with AWS, and crucial security considerations. You’ll understand how these systems are operated and monitored over time and work with simple to complex, industry-grade systems, adhering to best practices. In later chapters, you’ll be apprised of future IoT trends and strategies to manage the risks and opportunities that come with them. You’ll also get to grips with a diverse set of tools, including hardware such as ESP32 and Raspberry Pi, and software such as Mosquitto and ChatGPT for generative AI capabilities. By the end of this IoT book, you’ll be able to independently build and design complex, industry-standard solutions fully aligned with best practices.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with the Internet of Things
6
Part 2: Developing and Optimizing IoT Systems for Smart Environments
11
Part 3: Operating, Maintaining, and Securing IoT Networks
16
Part 4: Delving into Complex Systems and the Future of IoT

Practical – smart home insights with AWS IoT Analytics

In this practical exercise, we will explore IoT data analytics using AWS. Specifically, we will use AWS services such as S3, Glue, Athena, and QuickSight to analyze a dataset of IoT sensor readings collected from a smart home over a period of 1 month.

You will need the following software components as part of the practical:

  • An AWS account (you can create one for free if you don’t have one already)
  • A dataset of IoT sensor readings (you can create a sample dataset or use a publicly available dataset)

Let’s move to the various steps of the practical, as follows:

  1. Download the occupancy detection dataset:
    1. We can obtain a dataset from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/IoT-Made-Easy-for-Beginners/tree/main/Chapter10/analyzing_smart_home_sensor_readings/datatest.csv.
    2. Open the dataset and take note of the fields inside it.
  2. To start off, we will have to load our dataset into an Amazon...