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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

Working with the Arduino IoT Cloud SDK and JavaScript

Every platform provides APIs and SDKs to make their product compatible with other platforms, and these endpoints are used by developers to create new functionalities to solve real-world issues. Likewise, the Arduino IoT Cloud comes with its own built-in features and functionalities, but there are also three different ways to extend the Arduino IoT Cloud platform’s functionality or make it compatible with other tools and services: namely, REST APIs, SDKs, and webhooks.

In this chapter, we will talk about APIs and SDKs and how they work. Specifically, we will use the Node.js SDK to illustrate different coding exercises. This chapter will cover Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations for devices, Things, properties (aka variables), and dashboards. Beyond that, we will explore some other features such as how to set/get values of properties.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how to interact with...