Concise Guide to the Internet of Things

Concise Guide to the Internet of Things: A Hands-On Introduction to Technologies, Procedures, and Architectures | Michael McCarthy, Barry Burd, Ian Pollock
English | 2025 | True PDF | 359 Pages | 10.2 MB

This accessible textbook/reference focuses on using the Internet of Things (IoT) to foster sustainability. It guides readers in a step-by-step manner through the creation of example applications designed to promote a clean and healthy environment. Additionally, the book serves as a lesson in systems design, taking the view that the IoT is best understood as an extension of the World Wide Web. Therefore, the exposition examines how the Web was designed and how its principles can be applied to IoT design.

The book engages readers with modern IoT technologies, standards, and platforms. It connects sensors and actuators to the cloud, but in a way that is based on sound architectural principles.

Topics and features:

• Combines principles of Computer Science with hands-on exercises and programming
  
• Includes the Particle Photon 2 microcontroller, and uses Node.js and Node-RED
  
• Covers cryptocurrencies, Machine Learning, and identification technologies
  
• Examines sensing and actuation using The Photon 2 and MQTT
  
• Leverages large language models in exercises
  

Who Should Read This Book?
This book provides a hands-on introduction to modern IoT systems and does so in the context of building systems that promote sustainability. We, the authors, believe in building toward a sustainable future. We are also excited about the Internet of Things (IoT). We believe that the latter may help with the former. We have written the book for a wide audience. Each chapter contains solutions that are created in a step-by-step manner and will be well within reach of any motivated undergraduate. The book asks that the reader deploy software to various systems and configure hardware in several ways. This requires some “stick-to-itiveness,” and it would help to have some prior exposure to programming computers.

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