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A. TamboliBuild Your Own IoT Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8073-7_12

12. Connecting Your Hardware

Anand Tamboli1  
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

In this chapter, we discuss a few known as well as other hardware options. We also discuss how we can connect the hardware to our platform. Next, I elaborate on several options for topology and arrangements. Next, we discuss how each of them can affect your hardware choices, and, finally, we will briefly see what needs to be done at a firmware level to connect your hardware to the platform we built.

Why Learn Hardware?

A valid question indeed. Why learn hardware when the IoT platform is a software or software ...

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