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Learning AWS IoT

By : Agus Kurniawan
Book Image

Learning AWS IoT

By: Agus Kurniawan

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things market increased a lot in the past few years and IoT development and its adoption have showed an upward trend. Analysis and predictions say that Enterprise IoT platforms are the future of IoT. AWS IoT is currently leading the market with its wide range of device support SDKs and versatile management console. This book initially introduces you to the IoT platforms, and how it makes our IoT development easy. It then covers the complete AWS IoT Suite and how it can be used to develop secure communication between internet-connected things such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, smart applications, and so on. The book also covers the various modules of AWS: AWS Greengrass, AWS device SDKs, AWS IoT Platform, AWS Button, AWS Management consoles, AWS-related CLI, and API references, all with practical use cases. Near the end, the book supplies security-related best practices to make bi-directional communication more secure. When you've finished this book, you'll be up-and-running with the AWS IoT Suite, and building IoT projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Reviewing a project scenario for AWS IoT Button


If you search for Dash Button on the Amazon website, you will see various Dash Buttons that are provided by companies to serve certain business services. These scenarios could probably inspire you to implement AWS IoT Button in a real environment:

For instance, we can connect our AWS IoT Button to a smart home. While you click the button, you can turn on all the lamps in your home. In addition, you can connect AWS IoT Button for safety scenarios; for instance, the button will call the police while it is being clicked. You can see this scenario in the following figure:

The idea of AWS IoT Button revolves around what your system will do if AWS IoT Button is clicked. There are a lot of scenarios that you can see in your environment.