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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

Installing the Arduino Cloud CLI

In this section, we will install the Arduino Cloud CLI tool. The Arduino team developed the CLI tool for all three major operating systems: macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can download the Arduino Cloud CLI tool for your operating system from https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cloud-cli/releases. The official Arduino Cloud CLI page can be found at https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/getting-started/arduino-cloud-cli; here, you can get updated information regarding commands and their usage.

Always try to download the latest and most stable release of the Arduino Cloud CLI. After downloading the ZIP file according to your operating system, extract the files from it. You will find one executable file named arduino-cloud-cli and another called LICENSE.txt, and can set up Environmental variables for an arduino-cloud-cli executable file in your operating system, which will help you to execute arduino-cloud-cli in the terminal without specifying the location...