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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

Project #6 – Tracking and Notifying about Your Heart Rate

This chapter is dedicated to smart healthcare and wearables. It shows how healthcare devices can be integrated with the Arduino IoT Cloud platform and offers an example of an interface between the Arduino IoT Cloud and a third-party service. The notification service sends notifications to recipients when the measured heart rate exceeds the defined heart rate threshold.

In this chapter, we will embark on a practical exploration of smart health and wearables by working with a heart rate sensor and Seeed Studio’s newest and very small development board in the XIAO series, based on ESP32 with a lot of features. With the help of a sensor, a development board, and the Arduino IoT Cloud, we will build an IoT-enabled wearable healthcare solution. You will also learn how to set up webhooks for sending the latest heart rate values to Zapier. Finally, you will see how to set up Zaps in Zapier for email/mobile notifications...