Connecting Networked Devices

by Alasdair Allan, Brian Jepson

There is no shortage of tutorials for writing your first IoT application, but there's no end of confusion around how to get on a path to production after you have duct-taped a Raspberry Pi to your product. This "one to thousands to millions problem" raises questions of what product to use for going to market, and what to use to connect it to everything else.In this report, you'll learn strategies for scaling up your product and connecting it to the network.

49 pages, ebook

Published November 10, 2016

About the author

Alasdair Allan is a British scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. An expert on the Internet of Things and sensor systems, he’s famous for hacking hotel radios, deploying a 500-node mesh sensor network at Google I/O, and for revealing, back in 2011, that Apple’s iPhone was tracking user location constantly. He has written for Make: Magazine, VICE/Motherboard, Hackster.io, Hackaday, and to the O’Reilly Radar. A former academic, he also built a peer-to-peer autonomous telescope network that detected what was, at the time, the most distant object ever discovered.