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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

Evaluating WSNs

As mentioned multiple times in this chapter and throughout this book, one of the most imperative aspects of implementing a network is to understand how it can be best optimized. There are several key ways in which this can be done; one of them is through understanding metrics that are related to such networks and how we can apply them when we’re examining networks that we encounter. We will discuss these metrics and how you can use them to evaluate your WSN deployment, as well as other deployments that you come across to better understand how to optimize your own as well.

Metrics

In this section, we’ll look at different metrics that have to be considered when building WSNs:

  • Energy consumption: This metric measures the amount of energy that is used up by the WSN and is used to assess the energy efficiency of the network.
  • Network lifetime: This is a metric that measures the amount of time the WSN can operate before the batteries are depleted...