Summary

In this chapter we learnt about giving Internet access to the BeagleBone board through Wi-Fi, and sending an e-mail alert whenever temperature measured, using a temperature sensor connected to BeagleBone board, goes high or low, depending on the threshold value set in the program. We also saw how we can upload data to the cloud web server using HTTP requests made to the server from the BeagleBone board using Python. So, we have learnt how to set up basic level Internet of Things projects in this chapter. You can go ahead and explore the options of using the requests module in Python to use HTTP Put, Post, and Get requests on various freely available open source cloud servers built for IoT which are just like https://thingspeak.com/, which we used in this chapter. There are options where, instead of uploading data using an HTTP post request, you can get data from a cloud server; that is you can read data from the cloud server and print it on the Python program. You can read data from...