What is the Internet of Things? It's billions of embedded computers, sensors, and actuators all connected online. If you have basic programming skills, you can use these powerful little devices to create a variety of useful systems—such as a device that waters plants when the soil becomes dry. This hands-on guide shows you how to start building your own fun and fascinating projects.
Learn to program embedded devices using the .NET Micro Framework and the Netduino Plus board. Then connect your devices to the Internet with Pachube, a cloud platform for sharing real-time sensor data. All you need is a Netduino Plus, a USB cable, a couple of sensors, an Ethernet connection to the Internet—and your imagination.
Develop programs with simple outputs (actuators) and inputs (sensors)
Learn about the Internet of Things and the Web of Things
Build client programs that push sensor readings from a device to a web service
Create server programs that allow you to control a device over the Web
Get the .NET classes and methods needed to implement all of the book's examples
Dr. Cuno Pfister studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Z rich). His PhD thesis supervisor was Prof. Niklaus Wirth, the designer of the Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon programming languages. Dr. Cuno Pfister is the Managing Director of Oberon microsystems, Inc., which has worked on everything from mobile solutions to a large hydropower-plant monitoring system with 10,000 sensors.
Comments about O'Reilly Media Getting Started with the Internet of Things:
This is the book I needed. A perfect encapsulation of everything I needed to know about in one handy serving. It's geared toward the technically competent, so didn't waste time with the basics.
It seems to cover everything in enough depth to be truly useful and get your "things" pushing and pulling on the interwebs. Well done!
9/6/2011
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There are no online examples
By Stan
from Salt Lake City, UT
About Me Engineer
Pros
Easy to understand
Cons
No online examples
Best Uses
Novice
Comments about O'Reilly Media Getting Started with the Internet of Things:
I like the book except there are no online examples as promised in the preface. This degrades the quality of the book and makes it almost useless.
Merchant response: Hi Stan,
I'm sorry that the example files were missing. The are now available from the Download Example Code link on this page. The direct link to download the zip file is http://examples.oreilly.com/0636920013037/Projects+V20110526+Version+0.9+(beta+release).zip
Regards,
Rachel James
O'Reilly Media