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Smart Internet of Things Projects

By : Agus Kurniawan
Book Image

Smart Internet of Things Projects

By: Agus Kurniawan

Overview of this book

Internet of Things (IoT) is a groundbreaking technology that involves connecting numerous physical devices to the Internet and controlling them. Creating basic IoT projects is common, but imagine building smart IoT projects that can extract data from physical devices, thereby making decisions by themselves. Our book overcomes the challenge of analyzing data from physical devices and accomplishes all that your imagination can dream up by teaching you how to build smart IoT projects. Basic statistics and various applied algorithms in data science and machine learning are introduced to accelerate your knowledge of how to integrate a decision system into a physical device. This book contains IoT projects such as building a smart temperature controller, creating your own vision machine project, building an autonomous mobile robot car, controlling IoT projects through voice commands, building IoT applications utilizing cloud technology and data science, and many more. We will also leverage a small yet powerful IoT chip, Raspberry Pi with Arduino, in order to integrate a smart decision-making system in the IoT projects.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Smart Internet of Things Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing mobile robots


A mobile robot is a robot with the capacity to move. It has motors to get moving from one point to another point. In general, we can build a mobile robot using the five components that are described in the following figure:

MCU (Microprocessor Central Unit) is the command central of our robot. It can be an Arduino, Intel Edison, BeagleBone Black/Green, or Raspberry Pi board. Each MCU board has unique capabilities, as well as being programmable. You might need to select an MCU board model by referring to its size and weight, depending on your needs.

Depending on how your robot will move, you can use any motor model. To control motors, we need a motor driver because some MCUs may not have PWM/Analog outputs. In addition, motors usually need higher voltage. If we connect the MCU and motors directly, they may get a broken connection on your MCU. A motor driver module usually has a voltage regulator to control power usage in motors.

To gather information from robot's environment...