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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

Blueprint for your smart home IoT project

In the preceding sections, we discussed the sensors and development board in detail. Now, it’s time to cook the recipe. In hardware development, before starting to work with sensors and development boards, we need to develop the design concepts to get a better understanding of how things will be connected. There is a lot of software available to design and develop design concepts regarding electronics projects, but we are going to use Fritzing.

In the following two subsections, first, we will talk about the schematics and design of a project and explain how to connect the pins of the development board with soldering. Next, we will do some testing of the WS2812 to check all the colors and pixels are working.

Schematic design and assembly

The purpose of the design is to clearly understand how sensors will connect with the development board. It helps engineers to develop a prototype on a breadboard or on a veroboard by using these...