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Mastering Internet of Things

By : Peter Waher
Book Image

Mastering Internet of Things

By: Peter Waher

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. Mastering Internet of Things starts by presenting IoT fundamentals and the smart city. You will learn the important technologies and protocols that are used for the Internet of Things, their features, corresponding security implications, and practical examples on how to use them. This book focuses on creating applications and services for the Internet of Things. Further, you will learn to create applications and services for the Internet of Things. You will be discover various interesting projects and understand how to publish sensor data, control devices, and react to asynchronous events using the XMPP protocol. The book also introduces chat, to interact with your devices. You will learn how to automate your tasks by using Internet of Things Service Platforms as the base for an application. You will understand the subject of privacy, requirements they should be familiar with, and how to avoid violating any of the important new regulations being introduced. At the end of the book, you will have mastered creating open, interoperable and secure networks of things, protecting the privacy and integrity of your users and their information.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Preparing our project


We create a new Universal Windows Platform application project, based on the Sensor project described in chapter 2. This time, we call it SensorMqtt. We use the same hardware setup and sensor code developed earlier. In this chapter, we will focus on how to publish the information we've sampled on the internet, and how to receive it. We begin by adding a new NuGet package, the Waher.Networking.MQTT.UWP package. This package contains a simple MQTT client we can use to communicate using the MQTT protocol. We also add the Waher.Runtime.Settings package introduced in the previous chapter.

Note

For.NET standard, .NET Core, or traditional .NET Framework projects, you can use the Waher.Networking.MQTTNuGet instead. UWP apps use different libraries and runtime binaries when it comes to communication and encryption. For this reason, it requires a somewhat modified version of the original library.

Selecting an MQTT broker

To use MQTT, you need to decide what MQTT broker you will use...