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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

Setting up Raspberry Pi


Raspberry Pi 3 set up with Raspberry Pi camera is quite simple. You can purchase a Raspberry Pi 3 camera (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/camera-module-v2/) from any of the popular online vendors. Then you can follow this video to setup: camera board setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImeVqHQzsE.

My camera setup is as follows:

I have used a stand and hoisted my camera on top of it.

Setting up the camera

Now that we have the camera connected and powered by the Raspberry Pi 3, we will set up the camera, as shown in the following steps:

  1. From inside the Raspberry Pi, launch a new terminal and run:
sudo raspi-config
  1. This will launch the Raspberry Pi configuration screen. Select Interfacing options:
  1. On the next screen, select P1Camera and enable it:
  1. This will trigger a reboot, complete the reboot and log back into the Pi.

Once your camera is set up, we will test it.

Testing the camera

Now that the camera is set up and powered, let's test it. Open a new terminal and cd on...