Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi

by Charles Bell

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.

613 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2013

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Reviews

[Steve · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really couldn't take this book seriously, the author instructs you to craft and send SQL UPDATEs from the arduino to a mysql database. totally nuts.

[Jose Papo · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book who talks about wired and wireless sensor networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, about Internet of Things services such as Xively and local and cloud storage of sensor data in MySql. The book includes well documented code snippets necessary tocreate sensor networks and IoT products.