Collecting sensor data with Intel IoT Analytics

We will take the code we wrote in Chapter 8, Displaying Information and Performing Actions, when we read temperature and humidity values from the sensor, we printed the values in an OLED matrix and rotated a servo's shaft to display the measured temperature expressed in degrees Fahrenheit with the shaft. The code file for the sample was iot_python_chapter_08_03.py. We will use this code as a baseline to add new features that will allow us to create observations for the three components we registered for our activated device.

In Chapter 2, Working with Python on Intel Galileo Gen 2, we made sure that the pip installer was available to install additional Python 2.7.3 packages in the Yocto Linux that we are running on the board. Now, we will use pip installer to make sure that the requests package is installed. This package is a very popular HTTP library for Python that allows us to easily build and send HTTP requests with an extremely easy to...