About the Author

Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar is an electrical and electronics engineer with more than three years of experience in real-time embedded systems development. He loves building cloud-connected physical computing systems using Arduino, MSP430, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, Intel Edison, ESP8266 and more.

Jayakarthigeyan started understanding how computing devices and operating systems work when he started repairing his personal computer on his own in middle school that is when he first got his hands on in electronics.

From his third year in the undergraduate degree program, he started building prototypes for various start-ups around the world as a freelancer. Currently, Jayakarthigeyan is a full-time technical lead of the R & D division in a Home Automation startup and works as a consultant to many other companies involved in Robotics, Industrial Automation and other IoT solutions as well; he helps build prototypes to bring their ideas to reality.

I would like to dedicate this book to those two strong and wonderful women in my life, my mother Saraswathi and my wife Shivaranjani for believing in me and always encouraging me to do what I like with my crazy ideas.

Thanks to my grandfather Alavandar who has influenced and shaped me to what I am today. Special thanks to Rahul Nair for giving me the opportunity to write this book. Thanks to Mamata Walkar, Trusha Shriyan, Nirant Carvalho and all others at Packt Publishing for their support to me in shaping this book.