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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

Technical requirements

Despite there being no technical requirements in particular, general knowledge of microcontrollers and networking technology would be helpful. As we will be working with microcontrollers, it would also be great to know some foundational C++. C++ is a powerful language that is used in many low-level environments, and it is an especially powerful language for building IoT systems. Because of this, the book’s hardware-based exercises are all based on C++. If you are not familiar with ++C, that’s alright, as we will explain what is happening in every part of the code and allow you to get familiarized with this language.

For this chapter, you can obtain all the code that will be used at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/IoT-Made-Easy-for-Beginners/tree/main/Chapter01. All code that is used throughout this book will be in their corresponding chapters within the IoT-Made-Easy-for-Beginners repository.

We recommend looking up any technical concepts that you do not understand, though we will keep it as foundational as possible to allow you to build up on the foundations from here.