Rust for the IoT: Building Internet of Things Apps with Rust and Raspberry Pi

© Joseph Faisal Nusairat 2020

J. F. NusairatRust for the IoThttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5860-6_1

1. Introduction

Joseph Faisal Nusairat¹ 

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Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a highly encompassing term that covers everything from your home network-connected camera to the oven that is Wi-Fi connected, all the way to your modern electric cars like the Tesla that are always connected to the network and almost always on. The most basic premise of IoT is a hardware device that is a connected network appliance. In modern days, that usually means Internet and almost always connected to a cloud service, but it can just as easily be a local area network.

Only in the last 10 years have we truly embraced the IoT model for not only offices ...