Book on IoT Programming - what would you expect?

Hi Benjamin!

This sounds awesome. I think many people will value it. I would love to read it : )

As some ideas, it would be good to see case studies and business value and use-cases : )

Sometimes people think the scope of IoT is the fridge connected to the Internet.

I think for many people in general the business case still needs to be shown (maybe the media has not helped).

I think it needs to be shown there is actual cash being spent by companies, local governments, etc., to solve their real world problems, and they are doing it with IoT.

Also as part of the case studies how the solution designers made it deployable, configurable and secure and scalable, and so on.

Books get old quickly, so perhaps some chapters on the above would be more timeless.

From the building the IoT perspective, perhaps a review of all of the current interesting architectures that exist? And (if possible) an explanation of what platforms, app servers, DBs, and so on, were used to  implement them.

For a more programming perspective, maybe examples for the  different architectures would be interesting.

Looking forward to hearing more about your book!

And let’s not forget the stuff that binds it all together

The transport and messaging protocols (Light weight, heavyweight, gateways, brokers etc)

MQTT, REST, Other coupled with Privacy and Security concerns and how each of these can mitigate the risks involved

Interoperability and the importance of open and defined standards to allow this all to work seamlessly but safely

Peter

Good call with the security aspect.

Security is overlooked all to often with IoT devices and is often included as an afterthought not as an inherent aspect of design.

Examples of past fails can be found all over the net.

One such example: http://cybergibbons.com/security-2/heatmiser-wifi-thermostat-vulnerabilities/

A few end to end examples would be excellent, different platforms and code examples.

Perhaps the book could guide the reader though a full IoT build with tutorials and example code. Each chapter could introduce a milestone with additional functionality and then guide the user through implementation.

Please add an overview of the IoT open standards, protocols and platforms with examples, e.g. MQTT, CoAP, XMPP, Alljoyn, etc. And show all privacy concerns involved in centralized data storage by big corporations.

Apart from the afore mentioned I would buy a book covering the following:

- popular OS images and some degree of Linux OS customisation, kernel compilation and customisation.

- interoperability between linux and embedded boards, like the arduino via serial, I2C, OneWire, etc.
- Common Presence detection approaches.

- Zero configuration and discovery mechanisms such as Avahi.

- Lightweight Web frameworks for Web UI development.

- Lightweight databases.

- Wireless (wifi and Bluetooth) persistent connections and reconnection algorithms.

- Bluetooth+Wifi  discovery and management via a web UI.

-  Sample application with all the above.

I have played with a countless tools and frameworks to achieve the above, wasted a lot of time and still don't have a solid solution. A book guiding me through that would worth its weight in gold.

How is the book coming?