Colin Dow - Mastering IOT: Build modern IoT solutions that secure and monitor your IoT infrastructure

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Colin Dow is the owner and chief engineer of Sigma Rockets and Aerospace Inc., a model aerospace business. He has enjoyed working with numerous educational facilities and hobbyists in delivering product sales, presentations, and aerospace workshops over the years. Colin has extensive experience of creating website content, educational documentation, and instructional videos. He has been a programmer since early home computers first caught his eye. He has worked as a software developer for some of Canada's largest companies, using technologies, such as Python, Java, J2EE, PHP, Pearl, Ruby on Rails, Apache, and SOAP web services. Colin has extensive experience of creating website content, educational documentation, and instructional videos.

Perry Lea has spent 21 years at Hewlett Packard as a distinguished technologist and chief architect. Then, he served as a member of technical staff and strategic director at Micron Technologies leading a team working on advanced computing devices. Currently, he is a technical director at Cradlepoint where he leads advancement and research in IoT and fog compute. Perry has degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and an EE degree from Columbia University. He is a senior member of IEEE and a senior member and distinguished speaker of ACM. He has 8 patents with 40 pending.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being.

Well begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. Well learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. Well examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. Well also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure.

By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow
• Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea

This Learning Path is designed for developers, architects, and system designers who are interested in building exciting projects with Python by understanding the IoT ecosphere, various technologies, and tradeoffs. Technologists and technology managers who want to develop a broad view of IoT architecture, will also find this Learning Path useful. Prior programming knowledge of Python is a must.

, The IoT Story, introduces us to the growth, the importance, and the impact of the IoT from a narrative and historical perspective. We will also learn of use cases in various areas including industrial IoT, smart cities, transportation, and healthcare.

, IoT Architecture and Core IoT Modules, presents the overall picture of the combination of technologies covered in this book. Each segment has a purpose and can unknowingly affect each other. This is an important chapter for an architect to under the big picture of inter-related technologies. This chapter also explores the ways to place a value on IoT.

, Sensors, Endpoints, and Power Systems, explores billions of edge endpoints and sensor technologies that will be placed on the internet. Fundamentals of sensor designs, architectures, and power systems are taught.

, Communications and Information Theory, will review important material on the dynamics and mathematical models that define communication systems important to IoT. We will understand the theory behind architectural decisions in selecting the proper forms of telecommunication.