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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

OTA management

In Chapter 11, we explored what OTA is and how we can easily use this feature to send updates to remote devices. In that chapter, we used a graphical user interface, which is a good option for a single device. However, when we have bulk Things to send OTA, then the situation becomes complex, as we need to go through different things one at a time to send OTA updates, which is very time consuming and a difficult operation at the enterprise level.

That’s why the Arduino team created commands for the Arduino Cloud CLI to send OTA updates to single or multiple devices automatically, to minimize the complexity and operation time. So, firstly, we will explore how to export the compiled binary by using the Arduino IDE, and then we will send an OTA update to a device using its ID. For official documentation and updates, visit https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/getting-started/arduino-cloud-cli#ota-over-the-air.

Exporting a binary using the Arduino IDE

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