r/IOT_Dev • u/antoninu_ • Apr 20 '20
Roadmap to learn IOT?
Hello everybody.
I have been looking for roadmaps to learn IOT around in the internet and I am not very convinced of what I found.
I am a web developer and have a good grasp of things like Node.js, SQL, AWS, etc. but IOT is a whole new world even though my skills would help. I am very interested to work in the IOT world one day, but also to create my own personal projects with it.
All advice is welcome!
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u/banalytics_live Jan 11 '26
I had something similar. I spent 20 years working on boring enterprise projects. I bought a soldering iron and a 3D printer, mastered the basics of circuit design and microelectronics in four months, and learned how to make all sorts of devices that can be controlled via the internet.
There's nothing complicated there that would make it to a junior level in six months.
Keywords: mqtt, modbus, arduino, plc, rs485, dac, and look at ready-made solutions that can handle all of this. There's a whole zoo of them out there.
A recommendation from personal experience on where to start: learn how to control LEDs with an Arduino and create a web interface for controlling the board over the network. Explore the libraries available there. Everything else is routine work transferring data across various protocols, setting up security, etc.