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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

Building your own car robot


In this section, we will build a car robot. There are many options to implement your own robot. The following is a checklist of features that you may wish to consider when designing your car robot:

  • Objective: What kind of goals do you want to achieve in building a car robot? Just for fun, or research, or for a professional project?

  • MCU: What level of complexity will be involved in programming your robot? Is it enough to use an Arduino board, or would you need a complex MCU board, such as Raspberry Pi?

  • Battery: This is very important. You can choose battery models depending on the power lifespan that you require.

  • Sensors and actuators: Please use the appropriate sensors and actuators with your robot board. More sensors and actuators means you need more battery power. This also impacts on your robot's weight.

You should draw up another checklist dealing with your robot's performance.

In the next section, we will review the two categories of robot platforms: DIY robot...