Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript: Build standalone exciting IoT projects with Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) 1st Edition

End-to-end solutions for IoT enthusiasts and web developers

Key Features

Leverage the capability of IoT with the combination of Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6).
Develop a health monitoring device along with some cool projects like smart agriculture & Raspberry Pi 3-based surveillance.
A practical book that will help you build mobile/web/desktop apps that will show how to manage and monitor data from sensors and actuators in real-time.

Book Description

In this world of technology upgrades, IoT is currently leading with its promise to make the world a smarter and more efficient place.

This book will guide you through the process of building basic IoT solutions, thereby increasing your understanding of this technology. We'll explore the IoT solution stack and demonstrate how to use JavaScript, the world's most misunderstood programming language. Using Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) as the base to build all the projects, you will begin with learning about the fundamentals of IoT and then create a standard framework for developing all the applications covered in this book. You will then make a weather station with temperature, humidity, and moisture sensors and further integrate Alexa with it. Further, you will build a smart wearable to understand the concept of fall detection. You will then extend it with the ‘If This Then That' (IFTTT) rules engine to send an email on fall detection. Finally, you will be working with the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module and surveillance with a bit of facial detection using the Amazon Rekognition platform.

You will learn how to build exciting, standalone IoT applications and step up your projects by the end of the book.

What you will learn

Integrate sensors and actuators with the cloud and control them for your smart weather station.
Develop your very own Amazon Alexa integrated with your IoT solution.
Define custom rules and execute jobs on certain data events using IFTTT.
Build a simple surveillance solution using Amazon Recognition & Raspberry Pi 3.
Design a fall detection system and build a notification system for it.
Use Amazon Rekognition for face detection and face recognition in your surveillance project.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets IoT enthusiasts and web developers who would like to build IoT-based applications with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and JavaScript. Some knowledge about electronics and familiarity with programming concepts (JavaScript – ES5/ES6) is expected.

About the Author

Arvind Ravulavaru is a platform architect at Ubiconn IoT Solutions with over nine years of experience in software development and two years in hardware and product development. For the last 5 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side. Over the past couple of years, his focus has been on IoT, building a platform for rapidly developing IoT solutions, named The IoT Suitcase. Before that, Arvind worked on big data, cloud computing, and orchestration.