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Arduino IoT Cloud for Developers

By : Muhammad Afzal
Book Image

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

User-friendly controls – building web and mobile dashboards

After uploading the code to the device, it’s time to set up a dashboard for web and mobile to visualize the data with different widgets. The following screenshot shows a visualization of light controls with different widgets.

Figure 10.11 – Thing dashboard

Figure 10.11 – Thing dashboard

We have three core functionalities of WS2812, which include RGB color, brightness, and the on/off switch. In the previous section, we created three different cloud variables, which provide different functionalities. That’s why here we have three different widget controls, which only work with these cloud variables. The first widget is Colored Light, which is linked to the tableLight cloud variable and capable of performing all of the operations on the WS2812, such as color change, brightness control, and switching it on and off.

Next, we have two more controls with limited functionalities. The second widget is...