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Developing IoT Projects with ESP32

By : Vedat Ozan Oner
Book Image

Developing IoT Projects with ESP32

By: Vedat Ozan Oner

Overview of this book

Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 provides end-to-end coverage of secure data communication techniques from sensors to cloud platforms that will help you to develop production-grade IoT solutions by using the ESP32 SoC. You'll learn how to employ ESP32 in your IoT projects by interfacing with different sensors and actuators using different types of serial protocols. This book will show you how some projects require immediate output for end-users, and cover different display technologies as well as examples of driving different types of displays. The book features a dedicated chapter on cybersecurity packed with hands-on examples. As you progress, you'll get to grips with BLE technologies and BLE mesh networking and work on a complete smart home project where all nodes communicate over a BLE mesh. Later chapters will show you how IoT requires cloud connectivity most of the time and remote access to smart devices. You'll also see how cloud platforms and third-party integrations enable endless possibilities for your end-users, such as insights with big data analytics and predictive maintenance to minimize costs. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to start using ESP32 in your next wireless IoT project and meet the project's requirements by building effective, efficient, and secure solutions.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Using ESP32
7
Section 2: Local Network Communication
12
Section 3: Cloud Communication

Chapter 9: Practice – Making Your Home Smart

The second project in this book is a smart home application. Here, we are going to put the wireless communication knowledge we attained in the previous chapters into practice. A basic smart home product usually contains three groups of devices. There are sensor devices such as temperature, light, and motion sensors, actuator devices such as alarms, switches, and dimmers, and usually a gateway that provides access to the home device. This grouping doesn't necessarily apply to all smart home solutions, though. Many smart home products combine sensors and actuators into a single device with a direct IP connection to the local network, which lets its users connect directly to the device itself via a web browser or mobile application. We can find smart thermostats (such as Google Nest Thermostat) or smart doorbells (such as Ring Video Doorbell) on the market as examples of this approach.

However, when the sensors and actuators...