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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

Technical requirements

Before we start, we first need to set up an Arduino IoT Cloud-compatible board. I recommend the Arduino MKR Wi-Fi 1010, but there is a complete list of compatible boards at https://docs.arduino.cc/arduino-cloud/getting-started/technical-reference#compatible-hardware, which you can choose according to your requirements.

Second, you should have an Arduino IoT Cloud account. If you don’t, then sign up at https://cloud.arduino.cc/ and select a plan according to your requirements.

Third, we need to download and install the Arduino Create Agent. Arduino has created a beautiful web-based guide for installation at https://create.arduino.cc/getting-started/plugin/welcome.

The second part of the chapter is related to Node-RED, which will be used for devices that are not officially supported by the Arduino IoT Cloud such as Raspberry Pi and older versions of Arduino development boards. Download and install Node-RED according to your operating system from...