This book employs an incremental, step-by-step approach to get you familiarized with everything from the basic terms, board components, and development environments to developing real projects. Each project will demonstrate how to use specific board components and tools. Both Galileo and Galileo Gen 2 are covered in this book.

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Internet of Things with Intel Galileo
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Internet of Things with Intel Galileo
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introducing Galileo
The Internet of Things vision
Introducing Intel Galileo
Galileo Gen 2
A comparison of Galileo with the most popular boards
Summary
2. Rediscovering the Arduino IDE
Setting up your board
Downloading and installing the IDE
Common issues and troubleshooting
Updating the board firmware
The Arduino IDE
Running your first sketches
Blinking an LED
Fading an LED
Using the serial port for debugging
Methods and libraries
Summary
3. Monitoring the Board Temperature
Booting Galileo from an SD card
Getting connected to the Internet
Connecting through cable
Connecting through Wi-Fi
Scanning Wi-Fi networks
Connecting to the Internet and testing the Wi-Fi connection
Finding your board IP address
Reading the board temperature
Plotting your temperature data
Creating temperature data samples
Plotting a chart
Summary
4. Creating a Motion Sensing Light
Required equipment
Controlling a lightbulb
Controlling the relay using a motion sensor
Detecting luminosity
Using Galileo as a web server
Summary
5. Intel IoT Developer Kit Tools
Required equipment
IoT Developer Kit components
Building the image
Booting from the IoT Developer Kit image
Setting up the Wi-Fi access
The MRAA library
Node.js
Python
C++
The UPM library
Summary
6. Building an Irrigation System
Required component
Setting up Wyliodrin
Using Wyliodrin to read from the sensors
Wiring the sensors
Reading from your sensors
Controlling an irrigation system using sensorial data
Making your sensor data available online
Creating rules for actuation
Summary
7. Creating Christmas Light Effects
Required component
Wiring the LED strip
Controlling the LED strip
Creating a real-time server
Building the control page
Building the YouTube player page
Launching random LED animations
Handling the events in the server
Summary
8. The Intel XDK IoT Edition
Introducing Intel XDK
Creating and deploying an IoT project on Galileo
Creating a companion app
Summary
9. Developing an IoT Quiz
Required component
Creating the Galileo app
Coordinating players
The game engine
Caching the results
Using the LCD and buzzer
External dependencies
Creating the companion app
Interface
User handlers
Game handlers
Building the mobile app
Running the game
Summary
10. Integrating with Muzzley
Wiring the circuit
The Muzzley IoT ecosystem
Creating a Muzzley app
Creating the device integration profile
Developing the Galileo bridge
Developing the app interface
Lighting up the entrance door
Summary
Index
Internet of Things with Intel Galileo
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Credits
Author
Miguel de Sousa
Reviewers
Marcel Meijer
Carlos Montesinos
Gerardo Fco. Carmona Ruiz
Mudit Uppal
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About the Author
Miguel de Sousa is a core engineer and full-stack developer at Muzzley. He holds an MSc in computing and telecommunications engineering from ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. He has worked in backend networking, protocols implementation, and systems integration. As a maker, over the last 2 years, he has been developing several projects using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Intel Galileo/Edison boards in the field of Internet of Things.
About the Reviewers
Marcel Meijer has been an all-round Microsoft architect and Microsoft cloud specialist since 2008. He has helped many companies make the jump to successful Microsoft Cloud/Azure implementations. He has worked at consulting companies in the past for customers in different verticals. He combines an in-depth knowledge of ...
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