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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

Defining the design of an IoT network

It is important for us to understand the building blocks of an IoT network and how they connect with each other to form an effective, optimized network that suits our use case. In this section, we will be discussing the components of the network and how they fit together to function as we need them to. It is important to note that this is certainly not exhaustive of the components that an IoT network would have, but it contains what almost all, if not all, networks would have, and shows you how to piece the components together to be able to then apply them to the different network designs that you will see in the next section. Before we jump into the components, however, it is important we understand how we define smart objects, their components, and how they fit within the network to best utilize them in our networks.

Defining what constitutes a smart object

A smart object often has many definitions. However, it is important that we understand...