What this book covers

• Chapter 1, IoT Essentials, All You Should Know, offers an introduction to the core concepts and components that define IoT technologies.
• Chapter 2, IoT Network, the Neural System of Things, gives you a detailed look at the infrastructure and architecture of IoT systems.
• Chapter 3, IoT End Devices, the Neuron Cells of an IoT System, helps you understand the role and functionality of the devices at the edge of IoT networks.
• Chapter 4, Wireless Connectivity, the Nervous Pathway to Delivering IoT Data, explores the wireless technologies that convey data within IoT systems.
• Chapter 5, The Cloud, IoT’s “Superpower Brain”, discusses the capabilities and advantages of cloud computing in enhancing and scaling IoT applications.
• Chapter 6, Applying ChatGPT in the IoT Innovation Journey, explores how AI can assist in conceptualizing, planning, and executing IoT solutions, emphasizing the transformative impact of AI on the innovation process.
• Chapter 7, Recommendations to Start Your First IoT Project, provides you with practical advice on initiating your first IoT projects.
• Chapter 8, 10 Beginner-Friendly IoT Projects with ChatGPT Prompts, details 10 projects using ChatGPT to various extents, showcasing how AI can streamline the development process, from sensor integration to data handling.
• Chapter 9, Using AI Tools to Draw Application Flow Diagrams, teaches you about the use of AI-driven tools to create IoT application flow diagrams.
• Chapter 10, Setting Up the Development Environment for Your First Project, provides a detailed guide on how to establish a development environment using Visual Studio Code and the PlatformIO IDE.
• Chapter 11, Programming Your First Code on ESP32, walks through ChatGPT-assisted C++ programming on an ESP32 microcontroller to read sensor data locally.
• Chapter 12, Establishing Wi-Fi Connectivity, explains the steps to configure the ESP32 to connect to a Wi-Fi network.
• Chapter 13, Connecting the ESP32 to AWS IoT Core, illustrates the configuration of AWS IoT Core settings, certificate management, and how to establish a secure MQTT/TLS connection from the ESP32.
• Chapter 14, Publishing Sensor Data to AWS IoT Core, guides you through the process of setting up sensors, collecting data, and publishing it to the cloud.
• Chapter 15, Processing, Storing, and Querying Sensor Data on AWS Cloud, has you practicing tasks to process data via Python functions on AWS Lambda and store and query data using AWS IoT Analytics.
• Chapter 16, Creating a Data Visualization Dashboard on ThingsBoard, explains how to integrate the AWS cloud with ThingsBoard, set up real-time data feeds, and build your own dashboards.