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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Communication protocols

The Internet of Things (IoT) is based on the fact that a computer program can interact with all kinds of devices, gadgets, and sensors. At the lowest level, interacting with a remote thing needs to be done through a communication protocol.

The world of IoT is very interesting because it is a relatively new concept. When technology is not yet mature, it evolves very quickly and there are many competing solutions and only a few standards. There is still nobody to dominate the IoT market. If you try to look up IoT on the internet, you will find a lot of different answers. Every hardware and software vendor will have a different opinion about what IoT is and how to do it.

It always starts from a problem at hand, and how it can be solved. At one side of the IoT landscape, there are systems based on long-range protocols, such as LoRa, which provide bi-directional...

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