Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino: Leverage the powerful Arduino and XBee platforms to monitor and control your surroundings

Matthijs Kooijman

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4.2 (11 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2015 192 pages 1st Edition

Matthijs Kooijman

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Arduino has been established as the de facto standard microcontroller programming platform, being used for one-off do-it-yourself projects as well as prototypes for actual products. By providing a myriad of libraries, the Arduino community has made it very easy to interact with pretty much any piece of hardware out there. XBee offers a great range of low-power wireless solutions that are easy to work with, by taking all of the complexity of wireless (mesh) networking out of your hands and letting you focus on what to send without worrying about the how. Building wireless sensor networks is cost-effective as well as efficient as it will be done with Arduino support. The book starts with a brief introduction to various wireless protocols, concepts, and the XBee hardware that enables their use. Then the book expands to explain the Arduino boards to you, letting them read and send sensor data, collect that data centrally, and then even control your home from the Internet. Moving further more advanced topics such as interacting through the standard Zigbee Home Automation protocol, or making your application power-efficient are covered. By the end of the book, you will have all the tools needed to build complete, real-world solutions.

What you will learn

Interact with XBee boards using the XCTU program on Windows, OS X, or Linux
Make your Arduino boards communicate wirelessly, using XBee modules in the advanced API mode
Centrally collect and store measured sensor data, in the cloud or your own database
Connect the coordinator Arduino to the Internet and send data to web services
Control your environment automatically, based on sensor input from your network
Interact with offtheshelf ZigBee Home Automation devices
Make your devices batterypowered and let them sleep to get months or even years of battery life

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teaches the indepth programming of the ZigBee which you will not be able to learn generally.

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mtn rider May 07, 2016

If you want to work with Arduinos and XBees, there's no better book. This book will walk you through some of the more tricky aspects of getting XBees configured and up and running. Admittedly I didn't think the thermostat project was the best choice but it will give you an understanding of XBee capabilities and up your toolset for other projects. I especially liked the chapter on battery power and sleeping, controlling zigbee devices and the section on how to apply encryption. It's clear the author has done a lot of research so you can get on with your projects instead of wading through documents and forums

Brian W. Aug 14, 2019

I got this book a few days ago and did not know what to expect. I am on the last chapter of the book and I have to say that it is written very well. It is concise and easy to understand as long as you know some C/C++ coding. The examples and code that comes with the books all work well together.I am very happy with my purchase and would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about Xbee Using arduio and IOT. There is enough information in this book to get you started on your project.

HankinColorado Jan 28, 2016

Good book.

pmcommuter Sep 30, 2017

I have been stepping through the chapters using two Arduinos, two XBEE S2C modules, two Sparkfun XBEE shields, a Parallax XBEE dongle, and two laptops, and have been having a blast. The tutorials and exercises are well laid out, with an increasing level of complexity as you advance through the chapters. The introduction to XCTU was clear and concise, and I was quickly up and running. This was my first experience with Arduino, but the IDE is easy to use and the code extremely simple to learn, especially if you have any background with C or C++. There is a collection of Arduino sketches ( the Code Bundle ) accompanying the book, which I downloaded from Packt, and they have all run faultlessly so far. By the way, I have the Kindle version of Kooijman's book, and so far it appears well edited and formatted. I tend to look at tech books more on my laptop than on the kindle eReader; the diagrams and pictures don't look as nice on the small e-Ink screen but are still acceptable. I like to have the book open in a window, with the Arduino IDE and serial monitor in another window. This book will take you from knowing nothing about wireless mesh networks to a fairly advance level.

Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino: Leverage the powerful Arduino and XBee platforms to monitor and control your surroundings

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