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Android Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Android Programming for Beginners Build in-depth, full-featured Android 9 Pie apps starting from zero programming experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538502
Length 766 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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1. Getting Started with ESP32 FREE CHAPTER 2. Making Visual Data and Animation on an LCD 3. Building a Simple Game with an Embedded ESP32 Board 4. Building a Sensor Monitoring Logger 5. Controlling IoT Devices over the Internet 6. Building an IoT Weather Station 7. Making Your Own Wi-Fi Wardriving 8. Building Your Own Wi-Fi Cam 9. Making IoT Devices Interact with Mobile Applications 10. Building IoT Monitoring with Cloud Technology

Introducing a weather station

In Chapter 2, Making Visual Data and Animation on an LCDwe learned what a weather monitoring system is. To build a weather station, we require an understanding of weather monitoring systems. We will focus on building a weather station in this chapter. A weather station has more features than a weather monitoring system; we can send a result of the measurement to the backend server on a weather station. In general, we can describe a simple model of a weather station-based IoT as shown in Figure 6.1. A weather station consists of the following modules:

  • An MCU is used to process all computations.
  • Environmental sensors are sensor devices used to convert physical objects into digital form. In the context of weather stations, environmental sensors can be temperature, humidity, wind speed, and direction.
  • A network module is used to transfer sensor...
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