Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

Ruben Oliva Ramos

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781785888564
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Programmierung in JavaScript

Learn the art of bringing the Internet of Things into your projects with the power of JavaScript

About This Book

• This is a practical guide to help you configure and build a complete distributed IoT system from scratch using JavaScript
• Utilize the power of Node and HTML5 to develop web services and a centralized web server, enabling high-level communication between connected devices
• Control all your connected devices from the browser by setting up a common dashboard

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who are interested in learning how to communicate with connected devices in JavaScript to set up an IoT system. Some basic knowledge of JavaScript is expected. Hobbyists who want to explore the potential of IoT in JavaScript will also find this book useful.

What You Will Learn

• Develop the skills to connected devices prepared the field to interact with the devices in a network system Internet of Things
• Find out how to connect sensors and actuators to the devices
• Send data to a web server connected devices
• Understand Internet of things using web services and database
• Configure a dashboard using HTML5 and JavaScript
• Control devices connected from a dashboard
• Monitor different devices from the dashboard
• Build an app for a smartphone to control different devices

In Detail

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an entirely new platform for developers and engineers, but one thing that remains consistent as we move into this new world, are the programming languages. JavaScript is the most widely used language over the Internet, and with IoT gaining momentum, you will learn how to harness the power of JavaScript to interact with connected devices. This book will teach you how to interact with endpoint devices by developing web services in JavaScript and also set up an interface to control all connected devices.

This book begins with setting up a centralized web server that serves as a hub for all connected devices. The book then progresses further towards building web services to facilitate high-level communication between connected devices. Using Arduino and Raspberry Pi Zero as endpoint devices, the book will show you how devices can communicate with each other, perform a wide range of tasks, and also be controlled from a centralized location using JavaScript. The book ends with creating a hybrid app to control the devices that can be run from a browser or installed on a smartphone.

Style and approach

This book offers step-by-step guidance on how to set up a distributed IoT system using JavaScript.

It will teach you how to interact with endpoint devices by developing web services in JavaScript and also set up an interface for controlling all connected devices.

Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

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Credits

Author Rubén Oliva Ramos	Copy Editor Safis Editing
Reviewer Jacqueline Wilson	Project Coordinator Nidhi Joshi
Commissioning Editor Wilson D'souza	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Tushar Gupta	Indexer Pratik Shirodkar
Content Development Editor Aishwarya Pandere	Production Coordinator Nilesh Mohite
Technical Editor Karan Thakkar

About the Author

Rubén 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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