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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

Enhancing controls – integrating the Arduino IoT Cloud with Amazon Alexa

After testing everything on the device using the Arduino IoT Cloud dashboard, it’s time to link Amazon Alexa with our thing for the voice control system. We have a physical hardware device for Alexa as well mobile apps for Android/iOS. Please visit https://alexa.amazon.com/ to set up this project. I am using Amazon Echo Dot second generation, but if you don’t have access to an Alexa hardware device, then you can simply use the mobile app.

Figure 10.12 – Arduino Skill for Amazon Alexa

Figure 10.12 – Arduino Skill for Amazon Alexa

The Arduino IoT Cloud natively developed a skill for Amazon Alexa, which can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-LLC/dp/B07ZT2PK2H. Set up your Amazon Alexa and navigate to the preceding URL to enable a skill, which is shown in the preceding figure. When you link the account, it will automatically link the Arduino IoT cloud account that is already logged in with this...