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Arduino IoT Cloud for Developers

By : Muhammad Afzal
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Arduino IoT Cloud for Developers

By: Muhammad Afzal

Overview of this book

The Arduino IoT Cloud offers a variety of features for building modern IoT solutions while reducing time and costs for prototyping and deployment. This book is a step-by-step guide, helping you master the powerful Arduino IoT Cloud ecosystem. This book begins by introducing you to the IoT landscape including its architecture, communication technologies, and protocols and then to the capabilities of the Arduino IoT Cloud platform and the Cloud Editor. With practical projects, such as monitoring air quality, building a portable asset tracker, and creating a remote alarm system using the LoRaWAN specification, you'll learn how to implement real-world IoT applications. Next, you'll explore communication between IoT devices and cloud platforms as well as the implementation of the Arduino IoT Cloud SDK and JavaScript for advanced customization. You'll also find out how to program IoT nodes, analyze the surrounding environment data, and visualize it on dashboards. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with advanced features such as task scheduling, synchronization, remote over-the-air updates for IoT nodes, and scripting with CCLI, through hands-on examples. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to work with the Arduino IoT Cloud platform and related hardware devices and will be able to develop industry-specific and cost-effective IoT solutions, such as smart homes and smart agriculture.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to IoT and Communication Technologies and the Arduino IoT Cloud
5
Part 2: Getting Hands-On with Different Communication Technologies
9
Part 3: Exchanging Data between Nodes and Cloud Applications
14
Part 4: Learning Advanced Features of the Arduino IoT Cloud and Looking Ahead

Enabling Communication between Different Devices

This chapter is dedicated to thing-to-thing communication (TTC), which is a very important concept and requirement in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). You can also call it Device-to-Device (D2D) communication. D2D communication plays a vital role in complex systems where one device’s operations are totally dependent on another device. For example, say you want to control your room’s AC according to outdoor weather conditions; here, D2D communication plays a vital role by sending the outdoor temperature to the room’s AC controller device so it knows whether it needs to cool or heat the room according to the weather outside.

Arduino IoT Cloud provides a cloud variable synchronization feature across multiple things, as well as for dashboards, which helps us to build complex systems easily. This chapter explains the usage of the synchronization feature for the implementation of cloud graphical user interfaces...