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Published inNov 2017
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Catalin Batrinu
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Catalin Batrinu graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology. He has been working as a software developer in telecommunications for the past 16 years. He has worked with old protocols and the latest network protocols and technologies, so he has experienced all transformations in the telecommunication industry. He has implemented many telecommunications protocols, from access adaptations and backbone switches to high-capacity, carrier-grade switches on various hardware platforms from Wintegra and Broadcom. Internet of Things came as a natural evolution for him and now he collaborates with different companies to construct the world of tomorrow that will make our life more comfortable and secure. Using the ESP8266, he has prototyped devices such as irrigation controllers, smart sockets, window shutters, Digital Addressable Lighting Controls, and environment controls, all of them controlled directly from a mobile application over the cloud. An MQTT broker with bridging and a WebSockets server was even developed for the ESP8266. Soon, all those devices will be part of our daily life, so we will all enjoy their functionality.
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In this chapter, you have learned how to use Docker to create a development environment for creating and using a mobile application. On the ESP8266 side you have learned the topics and messages that the module needs to have in order to be able to integrate into a system composed from a cloud MQTT and a mobile application. The code for ESP8266 in the demo app is too big to be presented here, but it covers all the ESP8266 chapters of the book: how to connect to Wi-Fi, how to store data in SPIFFS, how to connect to an MQTT broke, and how to subscribe and publish messages on topics. It can be a good start for a Smart Plug device since it is a fully functional example.

On the mobile part, code that exists in the GitHub example is fully operational with the iotcentral.eu platform and with the demo app. Looking to the code a learning more on how to develop and mobile application with Ionic and Cordova, you will be able to easily add new devices such as temperature monitoring, controlling...

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787282629

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Catalin Batrinu

Catalin Batrinu graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology. He has been working as a software developer in telecommunications for the past 16 years. He has worked with old protocols and the latest network protocols and technologies, so he has experienced all transformations in the telecommunication industry. He has implemented many telecommunications protocols, from access adaptations and backbone switches to high-capacity, carrier-grade switches on various hardware platforms from Wintegra and Broadcom. Internet of Things came as a natural evolution for him and now he collaborates with different companies to construct the world of tomorrow that will make our life more comfortable and secure. Using the ESP8266, he has prototyped devices such as irrigation controllers, smart sockets, window shutters, Digital Addressable Lighting Controls, and environment controls, all of them controlled directly from a mobile application over the cloud. An MQTT broker with bridging and a WebSockets server was even developed for the ESP8266. Soon, all those devices will be part of our daily life, so we will all enjoy their functionality.
Read more about Catalin Batrinu