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Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications

The focus of the chapter, as its name implies, is machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. There is no human intervention in this type of system as all the computers or machines, as they are generically termed, are set up to communicate with one another using an established protocol. I will be using the BeagleBone Black (BBB) as a data source or publisher client and the Raspberry Pi (Pi) as a data sink or subscriber client. The BBB system will also use a single TMP36 temperature sensor—the same type that was used in the previous chapter.

Before starting the detailed discussion, I would like to ...

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