Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript
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First published: February 2017
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About the Author
Rubn Oliva Ramos is a computer systems engineer, with a master's degree in computer and electronic systems engineering, teleinformatics and networking specialization from University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico. He has more than five years of experience in: developing web applications to control and monitor devices connected with Arduino and Raspberry Pi using web frameworks and cloud services to build Internet of Things applications.
He is a mechatronics teacher at University of Salle Bajio and teaches students on the master's degree in Design and Engineering of Mechatronics Systems. He also works at Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial 225 in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico, teaching the following: electronics, robotics and control, automation, and microcontrollers at Mechatronics Technician Career. He has worked on consultant and developer projects in areas such as monitoring systems and datalogger data using technologies such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Visual Studio .NET, HTML5, PHP, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, Angular, ASP .NET databases (SQlite, mongoDB, and MySQL), and web servers (Node.js and IIS). Ruben has done hardware programming on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Ethernet Shield, GPS and GSM/GPRS, ESP8266, and control and monitor systems for data acquisition and programming.
"I want to thank God for helping me writing this book and his inspiration, to my wife, Mayte, and my sons, Ruben and Dario, for their support while writing this book and in general for their support in all my projects. To my parents, my brother and sister whom I love.
I hope this book covers the main topics for students that want to learn more about Internet of Things projects, and all the prerequisites for building this kind of application."
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Preface
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a powerful, low-cost, credit-card sized computer, which lends itself perfectly to begin the controller of sophisticated home automation devices. Using the available on-board interfaces, the Raspberry Pi Zero can be expanded to allow the connection of a virtually infinite number of security sensors and devices.
Since the Arduino platform is more versatile and useful for making projects, including the networking applications of the Internet of Things, this is what we will see in this book: the integration of devices connected to the nodes using the amazing and important Arduino board, and how to integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero to control and monitor the devices from a central interface working as a hub. With software programming you will create an Internet of Things system based in developing technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and Node.js.
This is exactly what I will teach you to do in this book. You will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi Zero board in several home domotics projects in order for you to build your own.
The books guides you, making the projects in each chapter from preparing the field, the hardware, the sensors, the communication, and the software programming-control in order to have a complete control and monitoring system.
What this book covers
, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero , describes the procedure to set up the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino board, and how to communicate among the devices. We will install and set up the operating system, connect our Pi to the network, and access it remotely. We'll also secure our Pi and make sure it can keep the right time.
, Connecting Things to the Raspberry Pi Zero, shows how to connect signals to the Raspberry Pi Zero and Arduino. It explores the GPIO port and the various interfaces it features. We'll look at the various things we can connect to the Raspberry Pi using the GPIO.
, Connecting sensors - Measure the Real Things