December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 56m
English
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Architecture
A simple reference architecture with Raspberry Pi, Wi-Fi gateway, the cloud engine, and the user interface apps stitched together would look as shown in the following diagram:
At a very high level, we have smart devices on the left-hand side and the user devices on the right-hand side. All of the communication between them happens through the cloud.
Following is a description of each key entity in the previous architecture. We are going to start from the left-hand side and move towards the right.