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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

This chapter requires you to have the following hardware and software ready, grouped into two parts – Raspberry Pi hardware and software requirements for the practical:

  • Hardware:
    • Raspberry Pi 4
    • Power supply for Raspberry Pi 4
    • MicroSD card
    • Keyboard and mouse (external)
    • Computer screen
    • HDMI/DVI/VGA cable
    • Ethernet cable (optional)
  • Software:
    • Diagram design software of your choice (e.g., Draw.io)
    • Arduino IDE

The Raspberry Pi computer is a cheap, credit-card-sized but powerful computer that runs the Linux environment, while providing you with the ability to do everything a desktop computer can do, such as playing high-definition video, word processing, and making spreadsheets. It can interact with the environment around it through its input/output (IO) pins and can be used to control hardware projects through this. It is compatible with several programming languages such as Python, C, and C++.

We will be running our programs on the Raspberry Pi...