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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 25. Controlling the Robot Car with Web Service Calls

One day, driverless cars will dominate our streets and highways. Although the sensory information and control algorithms will be located in the car itself, we will have the ability (and it will possibly be a legislative requirement) to control the cars from elsewhere. Controlling driverless cars will require sensory information from the car to be sent to a control station in the form of speed, GPS location, and so on. Conversely, information from the control station will be sent to the car in the form of traffic and directions.

In this chapter, we will explore both the sending of sensory information from T.A.R.A.S and the receiving of control information by T.A.R.A.S.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Reading the robot car's data from the cloud
  • Using a Python program to control a robot car through the cloud