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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the Scheduler and how we can use the Arduino IoT Cloud to automate tasks that have different patterns or random patterns of operation. We used simple LEDs with the MKR Wi-Fi 1010 to demonstrate multiple Scheduler/timer operations, which helped you to understand how to use this function in real-world projects, such as in smart agriculture and smart industry.

In the second part of the chapter, we explored OTA. Firstly, we discussed the pros and cons of OTA and how we can save time and costs with it. Then, we used OTA-enabled development boards to demonstrate the use of the OTA feature, and finally, we explored how OTA works behind the scenes.

In the following chapter, we will implement a healthcare project. You will learn how to use a heartbeat sensor as well as the Arduino IoT Cloud webhooks feature, which will send data to a third-party service (Zapier). We will use Zapier to set up a Zap, which will receive the heartbeat readings and send...