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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

Integrating Application Protocols

In the previous chapters, we learned about IoT networks and what constitutes them. However, to ensure that the smart devices within these networks function and communicate with each other, they rely on a diversity of application protocols. These come together with the communication protocols that we saw in the last chapter and certainly build more of a picture of the network. Integrating them further creates new challenges in terms of having trade-offs, but creates powerful opportunities to further power your solution to make use of the best communication methods.

Application protocols are the rules and standards that dictate how devices exchange information over a given network. These protocols help devices discover and connect to each other, allow them to send and receive data, and help control and manage them. This chapter will discuss why these protocols are important to the development of IoT networks and solutions and how you can design with...