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Learning AWS IoT

By : Agus Kurniawan
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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with AWS IoT
Getting Started with AWS IoT
Introducing AWS IoT
Introducing IoT devices and platforms for AWS IoT
AWS IoT Management Console
AWS IoT Device SDK
Setting up AWS IoT for your IoT project
Setting up the development environment
Building an AWS IoT program
Testing all
Summary
2
Connecting IoT Devices to AWS IoT Platform
Connecting IoT Devices to AWS IoT Platform
Introducing a connectivity model for AWS IoT
Selecting your IoT devices for AWS IoT
Configuring IoT devices to AWS IoT
AWS IoT development for Raspberry Pi 3
AWS IoT development for Arduino
AWS IoT development for boards based on ESP32
Building an IoT project with AWS IoT
Summary
3
Optimizing IoT Computing Using AWS Greengrass
Optimizing IoT Computing Using AWS Greengrass
Introducing AWS Greengrass
Exploring supported IoT devices for AWS Greengrass
Deploying AWS Greengrass on Raspberry Pi 3
Accessing AWS Greengrass
Building IoT projects with AWS Greengrass
Summary
4
Building Local AWS Lambda with AWS Greengrass
Building Local AWS Lambda with AWS Greengrass
Introducing AWS Lambda
Deploying AWS Lambda with AWS Greengrass on Raspberry Pi 3
Accessing AWS Lambda from IoT devices
Building IoT projects with AWS Lambda and AWS Greengrass
Summary
5
Expanding IoT Capabilities with AWS IoT Button
Expanding IoT Capabilities with AWS IoT Button
Introducing AWS IoT Button
Reviewing a project scenario for AWS IoT Button
Setting up AWS IoT Button
Interaction between AWS IoT Button and IoT devices
Building your IoT project with AWS IoT Button
Summary
6
Visualizing AWS IoT Data
Visualizing AWS IoT Data
Introducing IoT massive data
Introducing brief data visualization
Data visualization in the web
Consuming real-time sensor data in a web application
Visualizing data from AWS IoT
Introducing Amazon QuickSight
Consuming sensor data from Amazon QuickSight
Building data visualization for your IoT projects
Summary
7
Building Predictive Analytics for AWS IoT
Building Predictive Analytics for AWS IoT
Introducing AWS Machine Learning services
Making your sensor speak
Integrating Amazon Echo into your IoT projects
Making image and video analysis
Make predictive analytics for IoT data
Build a simple predictive analytics for your IoT project
Summary
8
Securing AWS IoT
Securing AWS IoT
Introducing IoT security
Understanding IoT risks
Introducing AWS IoT identity and security
Securing communication between AWS IoT and IoT devices
Authentication and authorization
Managing AWS IAM
Building a secure AWS IoT for your IoT project
Summary
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Index
Index

Setting up the development environment

After we have registered all the IoT devices for AWS IoT, we can set up our development environment. Depending on your kind of IoT device, you can install AWS IoT SDK for your device. You can review the details at https://aws.amazon.com/iot/sdk/.

For testing, we use a computer that acts as an IoT thing. The computer will access AWS IoT. To simplify our case, I use JavaScript SDK for AWS IoT, available at https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js. Since JavaScript SDK for AWS IoT needs Node.js to run the program, your computer should install Node.js runtime. You can download and install Node.js for your platform from https://nodejs.org/.

To install AWS IoT SDK for JavaScript, do so through the npm package. You should install Node.js runtime for your platform. You can type the following command to install AWS IoT SDK for JavaScript:

$ npm install aws-iot-device-sdk

You can probably run this command at an administrator level if you get an error message due to a security issue.

For the development tool, you can use any text editor to write JavaScript scripts. For instance, you can use Visual Studio Code at https://code.visualstudio.com. You can see my sample JavaScript scripts on Visual Studio Code IDE  in the following screenshot:

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