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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Chapter 13. Subscribing to Web Services

Many of us take the technologies that the internet is built on top of for granted. When we visit our favorite websites, we care little that the web pages we are viewing are crafted for our eyes. However, lying underneath is the internet protocol suite of communication protocols. Machines can also take advantage of these protocols and communicate machine to machine through web services.

In this chapter, we will continue our journey toward connecting devices through the Internet of Things (IoT). We will explore web services and the various technologies behind them. We will conclude our chapter with some Python code where we call a live weather service and extract information in real time.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Cloud services for IoT
  • Writing a Python program to extract live weather data