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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

Technical requirements

The following hardware components are required to complete this chapter’s exercise:

  • Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3
  • USB type-C cable for XIAO ESP32C3
  • WS2812 RGB LED ring
  • Male headers, female headers, and a veroboard
  • Jumper cables
  • Soldering iron
  • Amazon Echo Dot and the Amazon Alexa mobile app

For coding, we will use the Arduino Web Editor, which includes a large collection of development boards and sensor libraries, and the Arduino IoT Cloud for the Thing and dashboard setup. To develop hardware and sensor designs, we need the Fritzing desktop software and the Arduino IDE for testing the WS2812 ring.

Here, we will use the Amazon Echo Dot as a voice assistant for voice commands to control the smart bulb. If you don’t have an Echo Dot, then you can use the Amazon Alexa app for Android/iOS. The chapter’s code is available in the official GitHub repository for the book by following this link: https://github...