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Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Maneesh Rao
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Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3

By: Maneesh Rao

Overview of this book

This book is designed to introduce you to IoT and Raspberry Pi 3. It will help you create interesting projects, such as setting up a weather station and measuring temperature and humidity using sensors; it will also show you how to send sensor data to cloud for visualization in real-time. Then we shift our focus to leveraging IoT for accomplishing complex tasks, such as facial recognition using the Raspberry Pi camera module, AWS Rekognition, and the AWS S3 service. Furthermore, you will master security aspects by building a security surveillance system to protect your premises from intruders using Raspberry Pi, a camera, motion sensors, and AWS Cloud. We'll also create a real-world project by building a Wi-Fi – controlled robot car with Raspberry Pi using a motor driver circuit, DC motor, and a web application. This book is a must-have as it provides a practical overview of IoT’s existing architectures, communication protocols, and security threats at the software and hardware levels—security being the most important aspect of IoT.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

The code

Let's write the code to bring our surveillance system to life.

The setup requires Node.js to be installed on Raspberry Pi which we have already done quite a few times through out this book so we will not repeat that and straightaway start writing the code.

Camera module code

To use the camera, we need to include a library from npm. We use the pi-camera library, and to install it, run the command in the terminal, as shown in Figure 6.23. Check out the official link for the pi-camera npm module at https://www.npmjs.com/package/pi-camera:

Figure 6.23

Now, create a file with the name CameraModule.js and include the pi-camera module in it:

const PiCamera = require('pi-camera');

As per the documentation...