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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

Setting up a Thing, network credentials, cloud variables, and code

After setting up the hardware, it’s time to set up a Thing in the Arduino IoT Cloud. For this project, we need one cloud variable to fetch BPM reading from the device. The network settings will be different from those of Arduino IoT development boards as we are using an ESP series board. Figure 12.7 shows the complete Thing details including cloud variables, device info, and network configurations:

Figure 12.7 – Tracking and notifying about your heart rate Thing setup

Figure 12.7 – Tracking and notifying about your heart rate Thing setup

Set up a new Thing with the name Tracking and notifying about your heart rate. Then, proceed to the following sections of this chapter, which will take us through the following steps to create the variables, associate the device, set up the network configuration, and finally, apply the code:

  1. Firstly, we need to set up one cloud variable for BPM. The complete details regarding cloud variables are available...