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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

In this world of technology upgrades, IoT is currently leading with its promise to make the world a more smarter and efficient place. This book will show you how to build simple IoT solutions that will help you to understand how this technology works. We would not only explore the IoT solution stack, but we will also see how to do it with the world’s most misunderstood programming language - JavaScript. Using Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) as the base to build all the projects, you will begin with learning about the fundamentals of IoT and then build a standard framework for developing all the applications covered in this book. You will then move on to build a weather station with temperature, humidity and moisture sensors and further integrate Alexa with it. Further, you will build a smart wearable for understanding the concept of fall detection. You will then extend it with the 'If This Then That' (IFTTT) rules engine to send an email on fall detection. Finally, you will be working with the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module and surveillance with a bit of facial detection using Amazon Rekognition platform. At the end of the book, you will not only be able to build standalone exciting IoT applications but also learn how you can extend your projects to another level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Designing a reference architecture


As we have seen in Chapter 1, The World of IoT, all the examples we are going to work on have a common setup. That would be the hardware, firmware (software running on the hardware), broker, API engine and the user apps.

We will be expanding on the relevant pieces of framework as we come across it.

As and when we need to, we will be expanding on the hardware, or mobile app, or the API engine.

With this reference architecture, we are going to establish a pipeline between the devices present in the real world to the cloud in the virtual world. In other words, IoT is a last mile solution between devices and the internet.

Architecture

A simple reference architecture with Raspberry Pi, Wi-Fi gateway, the cloud engine, and the user interface apps stitched together would look as shown in the following diagram:

At a very high level, we have smart devices on the left-hand side and the user devices on the right-hand side. All of the communication between them happens through...