Accelerating IoT Development with ChatGPT : A Practical Guide to Building Your First IoT Project Using AI-Assisted Coding and Cloud Integration / Jun Wen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wen, Jun, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ChatGPT.

Internet of things.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Wen Jun: Jun Wen, the founder of AI Discovery Academy, is a passionate evangelist for AI enlightenment education among school students. With more than twenty years of experience in technology development, Jun has specialized in a wide range of industrial domains, including 4G/LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRaWAN, IoT, robotics, and AI. He has previously held senior product management positions at Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Cisco, and Motorola. Jun holds a Master of Science degree from Brown University and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional. His passion extends to creating IoT innovations, utilizing platforms including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and the AWS cloud, and finding practical applications for AI.

Summary:

Build cutting-edge projects with ChatGPT, PlatformIO, ESP32, and Arduino-compatible sensors by integrating AWS Cloud and the ThingsBoard dashboard Key Features Leverage ChatGPT to generate code on ESP32 for sending sensor data to AWS Cloud Create your own visualization dashboard on ThingsBoard Cloud Follow step-by-step configuration guidance to ingest, process, store, and query data on AWS Cloud Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description Unlike other IoT books that focus on theory and generic applications, this guide takes a practical approach, empowering you to leverage ChatGPT to build your very first IoT prototype. With over 20 years of experience in wireless and IoT technologies and a background as an instructor, Jun Wen expertly guides you from project kick-off to a fully functional prototype. The book emphasizes the transformative impact of ChatGPT for IoT, teaching you how to use ChatGPT to generate code for your applications, even with limited coding experience. You'll be introduced to using PlatformIO IDE within Visual Studio Code and discover the cutting-edge RISC-V architecture, the ESP32 MCU, Arduino-compatible sensors, and integration methods for AWS and the ThingsBoard dashboard. Working through 10 different project examples, including flame detection, smoke detection, and air quality measurement, you'll become proficient in the functions and specifications of each sensor and the use cases they solve. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to undertake IoT development projects, bridging the gap between your ideas and functional creations. What you will learn Master IoT essentials, such as networks, end devices, wireless connectivity, and the cloud Explore the ChatGPT prompting framework and build crucial skills for IoT projects Discover best practices for building robust IoT hardware prototypes Find out how to set up Visual Studio Code and PlatformIO IDE Connect ESP32 to AWS through TLS and MQTT Explore popular connectivity technologies widely adopted in IoT Integrate IoT sensors with ESP32 to capture accurate data using ChatGPT's assistance Who this book is for If you're a beginner interested in applying IoT technology to your projects but face challenges due to limited experience in embedded software coding, specifically in C and C++, this book is for you. Whether you're a student, hardware hobbyist, DIY enthusiast, IoT developer, or professional from a non-technical background, if you feel that your ability to innovate is often stalled by the complexity of software coding, this easy-to-follow guide to using ChatGPT for generating example code will boost your IoT prototype development.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Understanding IoT Fundamentals

Chapter 1: IoT Essentials, All You Should Know

The evolving definition of IoT

Deployed from fixed to mobility

Mobility from a local area to a wide area

Presence from city to barren fields

Throughput from Mb/s to Gb/s

Battery life from days to years

Networking from point-to-point and point-to-multipoint to mesh and star topologies

Intelligence at edge node

AI and ML

Addressable markets

Residential

Commercial and business

Neighborhood and campus

Cities

Rural areas

Industries

How IoT impacts us

Living comfort and safety improvement

Operational efficiency improvement

Environmental protection improvement

Industrial productivity improvement

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 2: IoT Network, the Neural System of Things

IoT networks at home

Home Wi-Fi

BLE

Thread

IoT networks on campuses and in buildings

Enterprise Wi-Fi

Thread mesh

Private LoRaWAN network

No one-size-fits-all approach

IoT networks in cities

Cellular network

Public LoRaWAN network

IoT networks in rural areas

LEO network

Chapter 3: IoT End Devices, the Neuron Cells of an IoT System

Device types

Installing indoors versus outdoors

Powering via external supply versus batteries

Connected by wire versus wireless

The need for edge computing

Hardware architecture

MCUs

Roles

Key features

Critical components

Off-the-shelf MCU

DIY-friendly MCU

Peripherals and interfaces

GPIO

SPI

I2C

UART

USB

SDIO

ADCs

DACs

PWM outputs

JTAG

Timers

Real-time clock

Sensors and actuators

Sensors

Actuators

Common pins on sensors

Understanding sensor specifications.

Summary

Chapter 4: Wireless Connectivity, the Nervous Pathway to Delivering IoT Data

10 knowledge points about wireless data communication

OSI model

Signal processing

Electromagnetic waves

Frequency and wavelength

dB, dBm, and dBi

Signal strength and quality

Shannon's Law and theoretical channel capacity

Modulation

Antenna technology

Propagation distance

History and current status

Bluetooth 1.0 to 3.0 - the age of Bluetooth Classic

Bluetooth 4.0 to 5.3 and beyond - the era of BLE

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 6

Wi-Fi 6E

Wi-Fi 7

4G/LTE and 5G

NB-IoT

LTE CAT-M

Standard organization

Ecosystem players

Chapter 5: The Cloud, IoT's "Superpower Brain"

Important tips

Why is the cloud essential for IoT?

The pain point of IoT before the cloud

The impact of the cloud

Integrating IoT with the cloud

Device management

Data ingestion

Communication protocols between IoT devices and the cloud

MQTT

LwM2M

CoAP

AWS for IoT

AWS IoT Core

AWS IoT Device Management

AWS IoT Device Defender

AWS IoT Analytics

AWS Lambda

AWS Kinesis

AWS DynamoDB

AWS QuickSight

Part 2: Utilizing AI in IoT Development

Chapter 6: Applying ChatGPT in the IoT Innovation Journey

Reshaping the future with AI

Utilizing ChatGPT in IoT development process

Interacting with ChatGPT properly

Best practices for beginner IoT projects

Prompt framework options

Best practice prompt examples

Generating code snippets on ESP32

Chapter 7: Recommendations to Start Your First IoT Project

Technical requirements

Thinking big and starting small

Reaching out for the low-hanging fruits first

Summary.

Chapter 8: 10 Beginner-Friendly IoT Projects with ChatGPT Prompts

Project 1 - temperature and humidity measurement

Specifications

Applications

Prompt to ChatGPT

Code example

Project 2 - flame detection

Analog output values

Project 3 - PIR motion detection

Project 4 - gas detection

Project 5 - distance measurement

Project 6 - tilt detection

Project 7 - vibration detection

Project 8 - collision detection

Project 9 - soil moisture detection

Project 10 - magnetic change detection

Chapter 9: Using AI Tools to Draw Application Flow Diagrams

Using diagrams for a better application journey

Processing data locally

Establishing an internet connection

Sending sensor data to Cloud

Data processing on the cloud

Part 3: Practicing an End-to-End Project

Chapter 10: Setting Up the Development Environment for Your First Project

Installing Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Setting up PlatformIO IDE

Installing other coding assistance extensions

Creating your first project under PlatformIO

Chapter 11: Programming Your First Code on ESP32.

Designing the application's local logic

Creating a flow diagram with ChatGPT

Building a device hardware prototype

Instructing ChatGPT to generate C++ code

Code examples

Using PlatformIO to program code on the ESP32

Chapter 12: Establishing Wi-Fi Connectivity

Designing Wi-Fi access logic

Creating the Wi-Fi access flow diagram

Instructing ChatGPT to generate code

Validating internet access on ESP32

Chapter 13: Connecting the ESP32 to AWS IoT Core

Understanding the approach to connect the ESP32 to AWS IoT Core

Provisioning the ESP32 in AWS IoT Core

Creating an AWS credential header file on the ESP32

Instructing ChatGPT to produce TLS code on the ESP32

Validating access status on the ESP32

Chapter 14: Publishing Sensor Data to AWS IoT Core

Sending sensor data through MQTT Publish

Constructing an MQTT Publish topic and payload in ESP32

Validating the delivered sensor data

Chapter 15: Processing, Storing, and Querying Sensor Data on AWS Cloud

Creating a customer-managed policy

Task 1 - abnormal event process

Configuration steps

Creating a message routing rule

Creating a Lambda function

Creating an SNS topic

Programming the Lambda function

Task 2 - data storage and querying

Creating IoT Analytics resources

Creating a second message routing rule

Running a data query

Chapter 16: Creating a Data Visualization Dashboard on ThingsBoard

Integrating the AWS cloud with ThingsBoard

Task 1 - Provisioning a ThingsBoard agent with AWS

Task 2 - Creating the data converter and integrating it with ThingsBoard

Task 3 - Producing a real-time dashboard with ThingsBoard

Index

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Notes:

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ISBN:

9781835467879

1835467873

OCLC:

1452290918