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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

The Arduino IoT Cloud and the MKR1010 Hello World example

A Hello World program is the first program that every programmer uses when they start learning any programming technology to get a taste for a platform. However, when it comes to the IoT side, things are different; you will be working with hardware and software, which means the Hello World example will be different from its traditional onscreen appearance. In this section, we will demonstrate how to turn on/off a built-in LED of an Arduino MKR Wi-Fi 1010 development board using the Arduino IoT Cloud dashboard, which is a Hello World example for the Arduino IoT Cloud.

In a series of steps, you will learn how to work with Arduino IoT Cloud-compatible boards. This part is very important to understand how a Thing works on the Arduino IoT Cloud platform. First, you need to get the required hardware, software, and accounts, as mentioned in the Technical requirements section.

So, in this section, we are going to start the Hello...