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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

Creating a menu system


We now have two pages on the sensor that we would like to navigate between, using some kind of menu system. Instead of having to insert this menu structure manually into each page, the Markdown engine we use allows us to define a master/detail view of our page. We can create a master Markdown document that contains the menu, and that embeds detail documents in it.

Creating the master document

We begin by creating a new Markdown document in the Root folder and call it Menu.md. In it, we add the headers that we want all detail pages to have. We, therefore, move the CSS file to the Menu.md file, since we want all pages to have the same design. We can also define an Icon header.

We then go on to provide the general disposition of the page, using the HTML5 elements header, nav, main, and footer. We define the menu using a bullet-point list. This list is rendered to ul and li tags respectively. We can use the CSS file to transform this bullet-point list into a nicer-looking...