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Practical Python Programming for IoT

Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

Practical Python Programming for IoT

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By: Gary Smart

Overview of this book

The age of connected devices is here, be it fitness bands or smart homes. It's now more important than ever to understand how hardware components interact with the internet to collect and analyze user data. The Internet of Things (IoT), combined with the popular open source language Python, can be used to build powerful and intelligent IoT systems with intuitive interfaces. This book consists of three parts, with the first focusing on the "Internet" component of IoT. You'll get to grips with end-to-end IoT app development to control an LED over the internet, before learning how to build RESTful APIs, WebSocket APIs, and MQTT services in Python. The second part delves into the fundamentals behind electronics and GPIO interfacing. As you progress to the last part, you'll focus on the "Things" aspect of IoT, where you will learn how to connect and control a range of electronic sensors and actuators using Python. You'll also explore a variety of topics, such as motor control, ultrasonic sensors, and temperature measurement. Finally, you'll get up to speed with advanced IoT programming techniques in Python, integrate with IoT visualization and automation platforms, and build a comprehensive IoT project. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with IoT development and have the knowledge you need to build sophisticated IoT systems using Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
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Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
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Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World

Imports

At the top of the source code file, we see the following imports:

import logging
from flask import Flask, request, render_template # (1)
from flask_restful import Resource, Api, reqparse, inputs # (2)
from gpiozero import PWMLED, Device # (3)
from gpiozero.pins.pigpio import PiGPIOFactory

The Flask-related imports we see on lines (1) and (2) are all of the classes and functions of Flask and Flask-RESTful that we will require in our server. You will notice on line (3), we're importing PWMLED not LED as we have done in previous chapters. In this example, we're going to change the brightness of our LED rather than just turning it on and off. We'll cover more about PWM and  PWMLED as we proceed with this chapter.

Next, in our source code, we start to work with Flask and the Flask-RESTful extension.

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