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Intel Galileo Networking Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
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Intel Galileo Networking Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is an electronic prototyping platform used by millions of people around the world. Intel Galileo is fully Arduino compatible; hence it combines the high performance of Intel with the simplicity of Arduino Software Development Environment. This makes it the ideal platform to build exciting projects, especially in the field of web-based connected applications and the Internet of Things. The book features several recipes all based on the Intel Galileo board, and that exploit the powerful features of the board. Each chapter explores a given field using the Galileo board. The book is mainly divided in three parts. The first part is all about learning the basics of the Intel Galileo board, but it uses some of the powerful features of the board such as connecting external sensors and complex hardware devices, compared with more basic Arduino boards. Then, the book dives into the topics related to networking and the Internet of Things. You will learn how to run a web server on the board and log data using a cloud-based service. Finally, the book ends with a chapter that aims to build a complete home automation hub using the Galileo board. This chapter uses everything that was learned in the book to make a home automation system using the Galileo board and Arduino.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Monitoring data remotely from a dashboard


In this recipe, we are going to build a project on top of what we just created. We are going to use the data that was logged on dweet.io, and display this data in an online dashboard.

Getting ready

We are going to use a free online dashboard to display the data graphically; Freeboard.io. You can find this at the Freeboard website:

https://www.freeboard.io/

You can now create a new account, and, once this is done, you can create a new dashboard:

Make sure that the previous recipe, which sends data to dweet.io continuously, is still running.

How to do it...

We are now going to configure our newly created dashboard so that it can display the measurements from the Galileo board.

The first step is to create a data source that will stream the data into our dashboard. You can do this by clicking on the ADD button:

This will take you to a panel where you can fill in the details about your datasource. Basically, you just need to select dweet.io and then enter the...