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Android Things Projects

You're reading from   Android Things Projects Efficiently build IoT projects with Android Things

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289246
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Azzola Francesco Azzola
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Android Things 2. Creating an Alarm System Using Android Things FREE CHAPTER 3. How to Make an Environmental Monitoring System 4. Integrate Android Things with IoT Cloud Platforms 5. Create a Smart System to Control Ambient Light 6. Remote Weather Station 7. Build a Spying Eye 8. Android with Android Things

Remote weather station project description


As stated before, we want to build an Android Things Remote weather station that acquires data from remote sensors connected to several IoT boards. In this project, the Android Things board acts as an MQTT client that collects data coming from remote sensors and visualizes it through an UI. In this context, the sensors are not connected physically to the Android Things board, but they are managed by other non-compatible IoT boards. In turn, these IoT boards exchange data with Android Things using MQTT. We will describe in more details what MQTT is and how to use it later. For now, it is enough to know that MQTT is a lightweight protocol that is widely used in M2M communication.

The following diagram describes the project architecture:

As you might already foresee, this project emulates the scenario where we have sensors and IoT boards physically placed somewhere far from the place where we collect data and analyze it. Therefore, this project architecture...

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