Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi Author: Charles Bell | Language: English | ISBN:
1430258241 | Format: PDF
Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi Description
Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi teaches you how to build sensor networks with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and XBee radio modules, and even shows you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a MySQL database server to store your sensor data!
First you'll learn about the different types of sensors and sensor networks, including how to build a simple XBee network. Then you'll walk through building an Arduino-based temperature sensor and data collector, followed by building a Raspberry Pi-based sensor node.
Next you'll learn different ways to store sensor data, including writing to an SD card, sending data to the cloud, and setting up a Raspberry Pi MySQL server to host your data. You even learn how to connect to and interact with a MySQL database server directly from an Arduino! Finally you'll learn how to put it all together by connecting your Arduino sensor node to your new Raspberry Pi database server.
If you want to see how well Arduino and Raspberry Pi can get along, especially to create a sensor network, then Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi is just the book you need.
What you’ll learn
- How to build sensor nodes with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi!
- What is XBee?
- What methods you have for storing sensor data
- How you can host your data on the Raspberry Pi
- How to get started with the MySQL database connector for Arduino
- How to build database enabled sensor networks
Who this book is for
Electronics enthusiasts, Arduino and Raspberry Pi fans, and anyone who wants hands-on experience seeing how these two amazing platforms, Arduino and Raspberry Pi, can work together with MySQL.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Sensor Networks
2. Tiny Talking Modules: An Intro to Xbee Wireless Modules
3. Arduino-Based Sensor Node
4. Rapberry Pi-based Sensor Notes
5. Where to Put It All: Storing Sensor Data
6. Turning Your Raspberry Pi into a Database Server
7. MySQL and Arduino: United at Last!
8. Building Your Network: Arduino Wireless Aggregator + Wireless Sensor Node + Raspberry Pi Server
9. Planning Wireless Sensor Networks
10. Shopping List
- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 21, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430258241
- ISBN-13: 978-1430258247
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Three important trends are affecting computing technology, embedded sensors and processors, and the internet. They are the proliferation, power and the inexpensiveness of embedded or physical computing, the availability of a variety of sensors for environmental, biological and physical phenomena that can be easily interfaced with microcontrollers, and finally the Internet of Things (IoT) a worldwide network, of sensors, processors and actuators which can sense and control our world. Dr. Charles Bell, of Oracle Corporation, a technologist providing guidance for the worlds most popular Open Source Database, MySql has filled an important lacuna in collecting data and analyzing sensors for physical computing systems and the IoT.
Dr. Bell clearly and succinctly documents such topics as wired and wireless sensors, physical computing including the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Internet of Things services such as Xively (formerly COSM and Pachube), and of course local and cloud storage of sensor data in MySql. The book includes well documented code snippets necessary to implementation of sensor networks and IoT. He also documents and comments on other resources both in the form of publications and online sources which will contribute to implementing such sensor networks.
I found this book extremely useful in my own area of implementing Biosensor networks and preparing the signal chain from these sensors to databases (locally and in the cloud) where analytics can be applied. I highly recommend it to users and implementors of physical computing solutions, and Internet of Things applications.
--Ira Laefsky MS Engineering/MBA Information Technology Consultant and Biosensor/Human Computer Interaction Researcher
formerly on the Senior Staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation
By Ira Laefsky
VINE VOICE
Okay, I am a newbie to sensor networks and physical programming. I am however a proficient writer, and am rather thorough with my reading and following of instruction. I found this book to be rather poorly written. There are numerous instances where numerical or formulaic output from programs and sensor data were incorrect, or at least un-verified. These instances made for a very misleading presentation, and contribute to what appears to the reader as a general lack of interest on the part of the writer or the editor. I think that there are better representations, and interpretations of sensor network construction via the many support site forums and blogs associated with the hardware being used.
By Dave Brown
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