The future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Wouldnt it be great if you could add this to your known technological stacks. But, where to start? Of course, with the basics. First, you will learn about the most popular hardware and communication protocol, the Raspberry Pi and MQTT. You will see how to use them together by setting up our very own MQTT Server on the Raspberry Pi and understand how it works. The book gets into the details of MQTT, know more about the clients or devices you will connect to your server. You will discover two very popular IoT development boards among project developers: ESP8266 and the ESP32 Dev Boards. You will also learn how to build interactive dashboards on your Pi and monitor your client devices. You will build the dashboard using another popular software - Node RED.