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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By: Gary Smart

Overview of this book

The age of connected devices is here, be it fitness bands or smart homes. It's now more important than ever to understand how hardware components interact with the internet to collect and analyze user data. The Internet of Things (IoT), combined with the popular open source language Python, can be used to build powerful and intelligent IoT systems with intuitive interfaces. This book consists of three parts, with the first focusing on the "Internet" component of IoT. You'll get to grips with end-to-end IoT app development to control an LED over the internet, before learning how to build RESTful APIs, WebSocket APIs, and MQTT services in Python. The second part delves into the fundamentals behind electronics and GPIO interfacing. As you progress to the last part, you'll focus on the "Things" aspect of IoT, where you will learn how to connect and control a range of electronic sensors and actuators using Python. You'll also explore a variety of topics, such as motor control, ultrasonic sensors, and temperature measurement. Finally, you'll get up to speed with advanced IoT programming techniques in Python, integrate with IoT visualization and automation platforms, and build a comprehensive IoT project. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with IoT development and have the knowledge you need to build sophisticated IoT systems using Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
6
Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
9
Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World

Exploring a threaded approach

Now that we have explored an event-loop-based approach to creating our program, let's consider an alternative approach built using threads, callbacks, and OOP and see how this approach improves code readability and maintainability and promotes code reuse.

The code for the threaded-based approach can be found in the chapter12/version2_threads folder. You will find four files – the main program, main.py, and three class definitions: LED.py, BUTTON.py, and POT.py.

Please take the time now to stop and read through the code contained in main.py to get a basic understanding of how the program is structured and how it works. Then, proceed to review LED.py, BUTTON.py, and POT.py.

How did it go, and what did you notice? I'd guess that you found this version of the program (while reading through main.py) much quicker and easier to understand and noticed that there is no cumbersome and complex while loop, but instead a ...