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A. TamboliBuild Your Own IoT Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8073-7_3

3. The Essentials for Building Your Own Platform

Anand Tamboli1  
(1)
Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Before we start the core activity of building the platform, it is important to lay down a solid foundation. This will not only keep our platform scalable and solid in the long run, but it will also help us to clearly articulate current and future technical requirements. In this chapter, we will

  • Choose the operating system for our cloud instance

  • List the base specifications of the instance

  • Determine what we need on our local computers for access

  • Expand on our own IoT platform’s block diagram ...

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