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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

Integrating Amazon Echo into your IoT projects


Amazon Echo is one of the Amazon products that uses speech technology. Amazon developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable interaction with machines through speech. You can buy Amazon Echo on the Amazon website at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XCM9LJ4/. Unfortunately, Amazon Echo probably does not support for your country. A list of supported countries includes their features can be found on this website https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202207000.

Amazon also provides a lite version from Amazon Echo known as Amazon Echo Dot. You can buy it on https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DFKC2SO/. I bought this device from Amazon Germany. You can see my Amazon Echo Dot in the following image:

In this section, we will build a project to integrate between Amazon Echo and IoT board. In general, we develop a program based on a scenario in the following figure. We want to turn on/off the LED by giving a voice command. For instance...