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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

Implementing the Arduino IoT Cloud Scheduler and Over-the-Air Features

The world is full of different and interesting use cases that vary according to different circumstances. In the world of full automation, many use cases require applications to perform a specific operation at a certain time or frequency, defined by an end user. To handle this situation, the Arduino IoT Cloud has a Scheduler feature to let end users configure the execution time and frequency through a dashboard, without any modification to code on end devices. Initially, in this chapter, you will learn about the Arduino IoT Cloud Scheduler feature and its implementation.

Then, this chapter will cover the Over-the-Air (OTA) feature, which is becoming increasingly popular in remote devices such as mobile nodes, especially remote IoT nodes. The OTA feature allows you to broadcast the firmware update to IoT nodes, which will update wirelessly without any physical connection. This procedure enables the remote maintenance...