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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 the notification service

Multiple platforms provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) infrastructure and operate as a bridge between a variety of applications to make interoperability easy. Platforms for this purpose include Zapier, IFTTT, and Integromat, and provide an interface to integrate other platforms into the Arduino IoT Cloud platform to fulfill the requirements instead of developing the required features from scratch.

So firstly, we need to understand why we need the Zapier automation platform. In our current project, we want to send notifications by email/SMS when a specific threshold is met, but the Arduino IoT Cloud only provides the data visualization, webhooks, and API functionalities. We have two options to solve this problem. Either we need to develop a custom solution to send notifications by email/SMS using Arduino webhooks and APIs, or we can use an automation platform such as Zapier or IFTTT, which will save time and reduce costs compared to the first...