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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

Initial exploration – test drive using Postman

Before diving into the SDK, we will try the naked REST APIs endpoints using Postman, a tool that helps developers to debug requests/responses for other programming-language platforms not available as SDKs. Postman is a well-known tool among backend developers and is used to expose API requests/responses without any coding. Postman also helps developers to analyze responses via a graphical user interface (GUI).

Download Postman from https://www.postman.com/, choosing the correct version for your operating system. Before getting to work with Postman, firstly create a new workspace for the Arduino IoT Cloud to put all the requests in a separate group. To do this, click on Workspaces and then Create Workspace:

Figure 8.3 – Postman workspace

Figure 8.3 – Postman workspace

A new window will be opened: provide a workspace name and description and set the visibility policy according to your requirements. After creating the new...