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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

Scripting the Arduino IoT Cloud with Cloud CLI

The Arduino Cloud Command-Line Interface (CLI) is an automation tool that is useful for scripting and creating devices, Things, and dashboards. It also provides the option to perform mass uploads (OTA), enabling the fleet management of deployed IoT nodes. This chapter will explore the advanced functionalities of the tool and propose some scenarios for its usage.

The Arduino Cloud CLI is a cross-platform tool that lets you perform bulk management and operations via the command line, which helps you to increase your productivity, and provides the option to automate Things via command-line scripts. In this chapter, we will explore all the commands and observe their context.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how to interact with the Arduino IoT Cloud platform via a CLI to create, delete, or extract templates from devices, Things, and dashboards and send OTA updates to devices via the command line. This chapter will show...