Overview
- Brings together cutting-edge technologies that developers need to master in order to compete in today's marketplace
- Demonstrates how complex capabilities can be provided and consumed as a service in the form of easy-to-use APIs, making them more accessible than ever before
- Contains examples in C# that can easily be applied across a wide range of platforms, including web, desktop, and mobile
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About this book
As you work through the book, you’ll get hands-on experience building an example solution that uses all of these technologies—an IoT suite for a smart healthcare facility. Hosted on Azure and networked using Azure IoT, the solution includes centralized patient monitoring, using Cognitive Services APIs for face detection, recognition, and tracking. Blockchain is used to create trust-based security and inventory management. Machine learning is used to create predictive solutions to proactively improve quality of life. By the end of the book, you’ll be confident creating richer and smarter applications using these technologies.
What You’ll Learn
- Know the technologies underpinning Industry 4.0 and AI 2.0
- Develop real-time solutions using IoT in Azure
- Bring the smart capabilities of AI 2.0 into your application using a simple API call
- Host and manage your solution on Azure
- Understand Blockchain as a Service
- Capture and analyze data on the fly
- Make predictions using existing data
Who This Book Is For
Novice and intermediate .NET developers and architects who want to learn what it takes to create a modern or next-generation application
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anurag Bhandari is Senior Researcher at Accenture Technology Labs, where he designs next-generation AI, ML, and IoT solutions for clients. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and regularly speaks at research and tech conferences. He also specializes in mobile and web development, and liveson the leading edge of these technologies. He is an ardent open-source evangelist whose love for free software helped him found the Granular Linux project 11 years ago.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: IoT, AI, and Blockchain for .NET
Book Subtitle: Building a Next-Generation Application from the Ground Up
Authors: Nishith Pathak, Anurag Bhandari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3709-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Nishith Pathak and Anurag Bhandari 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3708-3Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3709-0Published: 14 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 149 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Computer Communication Networks, Artificial Intelligence