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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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

AWS IoT development for boards based on ESP32


The ESP32 chip is an MCU with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network modules. This chip is developed by Espressif. For further information about the ESP32 chip, I recommend that you read the product documentation at http://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp32/overview.

There are a lot of boards based on ESP32. You can find various boards based on  ESP32 from SparkFun, Adafruit, or embedded companies from China. To work with AWS IoT on the ESP32 chip, we can apply the Mongoose OS platform from Cesanta. You can review the details of this platform on the official website at https://mongoose-os.com.

Cesanta provides an IoT kit-based ESP32 chip, called Mongoose OS ESP32-DevKitC. The software of Mongoose OS is built from Node.js/JavaScript. To configure this board connecting to AWS IoT, you can follow the instructions at https://mongoose-os.com/software.html.