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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

Understanding the fundamentals of network design

Before we head into seeing some best practices for designing networks, it is imperative that we have a good grasp of the networking concepts that go into designing them. So far, we have been looking at devices individually but not at the linking factor that brings them together: the connectivity that helps them communicate with one another as well as with the internet itself, hence the term smart objects. Here, we will illustrate some high-level concepts of how this is done in terms of the communication technologies needed and the seven layers of interaction that IoT goes through.

Ranges

Ranges determine the maximum distance at which devices can communicate with one another. They affect the area of coverage that the network can provide and the number of devices that can be connected. There is a vast variety of networking technologies, each with its own advantages and disadvantages on factors such as its range, its impedance by...