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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 components – sensors and development boards

In the ESP32 series, we have a wide collection of development boards, which vary in size and pins. In this chapter, we are using Seeed Studio’s latest development board, the XIAO ESP32C3, as it’s very compact and smaller in size than other boards, and of course, cheaper and is suitable for 5V as well as 3.3V. The following figure is the pin layout diagram of XIAO ESP32C3.

Figure 10.1 – XIAO ESP32C pinout diagram

Figure 10.1 – XIAO ESP32C pinout diagram

XIAO ESP32C provides multiple pins for digital input/output. In the previous ESP series board, we found only one analog pin, but on this development board, we have four analog pins, which removes the biggest hurdle while developing a solution that uses multiple analog pins. With previous ESP series boards, we used ADS1115/ADS1015 for extra analog pins, so this development board will save us some bucks as we will get four analog pins by default on the development board...