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Mastering Internet of Things

You're reading from   Mastering Internet of Things Design and create your own IoT applications using Raspberry Pi 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397483
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Waher Peter Waher
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing Our First Raspberry Pi Project 2. Creating a Sensor to Measure Ambient Light FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating an Actuator for Controlling Illumination 4. Publishing Information Using MQTT 5. Publishing Data Using HTTP 6. Creating Web Pages for Your Devices 7. Communicating More Efficiently Using CoAP 8. Interoperability 9. Social Interaction with Your Devices Using XMPP 10. The Controller 11. Product Life Cycle 12. Concentrators and Bridges 13. Using an Internet of Things Service Platform 14. IoT Harmonization 15. Security for the Internet of Things 16. Privacy 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Publishing sensor data

Now that we have a live connection, we're ready to publish sampled sensor data. We will first need some member variables. These will store last values, last-published values, and the timestamps of last-published values:

private double? lastLight = null; 
private bool? lastMotion = null; 
private double? lastPublishedLight = null; 
private bool? lastPublishedMotion = null; 
private DateTimelastLightPublishTime = DateTime.MinValue; 
private DateTimelastMotionPublishTime = DateTime.MinValue; 

From our sampling and event methods where we receive and calculate our most recent sensor data, we call two new methods: PublishLight() and PublishMotion(). To illustrate different ways of publishing data, these two methods will publish the corresponding sensor data fields on individual topics, as strings. They will then individually call PublishLastJson(), which...

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