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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 5. Non-IP Based WPAN

Sensors, and other things connected to the internet, need a method of transmitting and receiving information. This is the topic of personal area network (PAN) and near-range communication. In an IoT ecosphere, communication to a sensor or actuator can be a copper wire or a Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). In this chapter, we concentrate on the WPAN as that is the prevalent method for industrial, commercial, and consumer connections to the things of the internet. Wire-based connectivity is still used, but primarily in legacy industries and areas that are not radio-frequency friendly. There is a wide variety of different communication channels between the endpoint and the internet; some may be built on a traditional IP stack (6LoWPAN) and others use non-IP (internet protocol) communication to maximize energy savings (BLE).

We separate out IP and non-IP, as IP-based communication systems need further detail that non-IP communication doesn't necessarily need...