IOT programming with python and serverless computing

ABSTRACT:
The Internet of Things is making life easier for a wild diversity of businesses and people. In this session, we will be discussing the various components for configuring IOT hardware and applications, using python and cloud technologies. I mostly work on the Raspberry Pi Model 3 hardware which is an extremely capable Single Board Computer, with a lot of peripherals to play around with. We will also be discussing how to start building applications for digital assistants using python and serverless computing. Broadly, we will touching upon the following areas:
• Brief introduction to IOT programming and automation.
• Overview of serverless computing, and integration with python.
• Viability of serverless compute infrastructure for IOT applications.
• Use of mraa, mqtt, opencv and micropython libraries
• Integration with AWS Lambda functions and building digital assistant
skills.
• Testing applications with ngrok and handling IOT Security.
• Exploring IOT targeted serverless frameworks like IFTTT.

PREREQUISITES:
The session will be structured for an audience with basic to moderate experience with
Python. No systems or IOT experience is required.

SPEAKER BIO:
Sonal has been an open source evangelist for 10 years and have been working as an integral part of the financial technology industry for the past 5 years. He is currently a Senior Engineer at D. E. Shaw. He was a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and holds
a masters in IT. His domains of work include python, distributed systems and graph databases, and he loves to explore new gadgets and develop new technology. He is the author of the book 'Neo4j High Performance' and the upcoming ‘Interview Essentials’ series. He is also the author of the ‘neopy’ python library. You are likely to run into him at FOSS events.