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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

Crafting dashboards – unleashing potential via the command line

Dashboards are the most important ingredient in the Arduino IoT Cloud pertaining to data visualization. In the Arduino Cloud CLI, we have dashboard-specific commands to perform operations on dashboards, such as extracting a template from an existing dashboard, viewing a list of dashboards, deleting the dashboard, and creating a dashboard from an extracted template. Firstly, we will start with dashboard template extraction.

Extracting a template from a dashboard

In the Arduino Cloud CLI, we deal with commands and provide different parameters to perform various operations. Therefore, it is difficult to create a new dashboard via the command line, as it will make it more complex to guide the Arduino IoT Cloud about widgets and attach these widgets with cloud variables via commands.

To solve this issue, the Arduino team introduced the concept of template extraction from a dashboard. For example, if you want...