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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

Step-by-step – installing the Arduino Node.js SDK client

From this point, we are going to use the Node.js SDK for our exercises and experiments. Before moving to the practical exercises, we need to first install the Arduino IoT Cloud package for Node.js. Download and install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/. After the installation of Node.js is complete, open up the Windows/Mac/Linux Terminal and navigate to the directory where you will set up your coding workspaces using VSCode:

npm install @arduino/arduino-iot-client
npm i request-promise

Type the two preceding commands in the Terminal and wait for the installation to complete. After a successful installation, open up VSCode and add the folder (where you have installed the Node.js Arduino IoT Cloud SDK) to the workspace where you installed the Arduino IoT Cloud and request-promise modules.

Navigate to the book’s official GitHub repository and download all the code from this chapter’s folder. Copy the...