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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring sensor data from a cloud dashboard


So far in this chapter, we stored data on Dweet.io, and we also saw how to retrieve the data back from the server. However, what would be even better is to learn how to plot this data inside a dashboard that is also in the cloud. And that's exactly what we are going to do in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to have an account with Freeboard.io, which is a very convenient service that you can use to plot data graphically. To do so, just go to:

http://freeboard.io/

Now, inside the Freeboard.io interface, create a new dashboard:

You should also make sure that the project we used in previous recipes is still running, and still logging data on Dweet.io.

How to do it...

Now, go to your newly created panel inside http://freeboard.io/. Next, click on DATASOURCES to create a new source of data:

Inside, you need to select Dweet.io as the type of the data source, and you also need to put the name of your thing Dweet.io:

The newly created...