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14. Project 5: Remote Control Hardware

Charles Bell1  
(1)
Warsaw, VA, USA
 

Some of the more interesting IoT solutions are those that implement actionable devices or features that allow you to control hardware remotely. This could be controlling a remote control toy (car, truck, drone), moving a camera (pan, tilt, zoom), opening or closing a gate, and so forth or simply controlling lights or locks remotely.

That’s the real key and trick to the solution—making the solution available remotely. One of the best ways to do that is to use networking protocols running on the device and control it using an application on another PC or device (via the ...

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