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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

Project architecture

In this section, we will discuss how cloud variable synchronization works. As shown in Figure 7.1, we have taken the project from Chapter 4. In that project, we set up a device that monitors outdoor temperature, humidity, and air quality. Now, we want to share the outdoor temperature with our indoor device, which is the MKR Wi-Fi 1010. To make things easier, we just used LEDs with MKR Wi-Fi 1010, which is shown in Figure 7.2. Our indoor device will turn on the red LED if the temperature exceeds the specified threshold and turn on the green LED if it comes down below a specified threshold. You can also use relays instead of LEDs to control the heating and cooling system of your room.

We already have one complete thing in Arduino IoT Cloud that is working, but now we need to create another thing for MKR Wi-Fi 1010 named Indoor MKR Wi-Fi 1010 with a bunch of cloud variables. We will then sync the temperature cloud variable of the Indoor MKR Wi-Fi 1010 thing with...