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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

Essential hardware for your agri-tech project

In this project, we have chosen open source and easily available hardware components. To demonstrate how the Arduino IoT Cloud works with ESP32 series development boards, we have chosen the following hardware. In the ESP32 series, we have a wide selection of development boards that vary in size and number of pins. In this chapter, we are using ESP32-DevKit V1 as it’s very compact and smaller in size compared to other boards. It is, of course, also cheaper and provides a 5V pin, which is also known as VIN, as well as having the option of a 3.3V pin. The following figure shows the pin layout (pinout) diagram of ESP32 V1.

Figure 9.1: ESP32-DevKit V1

Figure 9.1: ESP32-DevKit V1

ESP32 provides multiple pins for digital and analog input/output. If you want to use multiple analog sensors, then ADCs are available. One of the most well-known ADCs is the ADS1115/ADS1015 module, which provides four analog pins and is good when you need to...