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Gavalas, V. Kasapakis, T. Chatzidimitris, \u201cMobile Technologies\u201d (in Greek), New Technologies Publications, 2015, ISBN: 978\u2010960\u2010578\u2010007\u20104, Book code in Evdoxus system: 50657185."],"_course-greek-bib":["field_5d138e3cf441d"],"course-intl-bib":["Hakima Chaouchi, \u201cThe Internet of Things: Connecting Objects\u201d, Wiley, ISBN 978-1-84821-140-7, May 2010.\r\n\u0392. Arshdeep and M. Vijay, \u201cInternet of Things: A Hands-On Approach\u201d, ISBN 978-0-99602-552-2, September 2014.\r\nD. Norris, \u201cThe Internet of Things: Do-It-Yourself at Home Projects for Arduino, Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black\u201d, McGraw-Hill Education, ISBN 978-00718-352-0, January 2015.\r\nM. Schwartz, \u201cInternet of Things with the Raspberry Pi: Build Internet of Things Projects Using the Raspberry Pi Platform\u201d, Kindle Edition, Amazon Digital Services, May 2015.\r\nM. 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