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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 several Arduino boards at once


In the last recipe of this chapter, we are going to see how to integrate the data coming from several Arduino boards at once inside the same dashboard, so you can monitor all your data from a single place, wherever you are on the planet.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to have already released22 the project from the previous recipe, and have a project logging data on Dweet.io, and linked to Freeboard.io as well.

Then, you can build as many of those projects as you want, with the same components on each project. For this recipe, I used three MKR1000 boards, each with the same sensors.

How to do it...

You can now program all of your boards. You can use the same code that we used earlier in this chapter, but for each device you need to change the name of the 'thing' on Dweet.io. For example:

char * thingName = "mymkr1000_two";

Next, inside http://Freeboard.io, you need to set a new data source for each board you have in your project, with the...