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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

Introducing the Arduino IoT Cloud interface

The Arduino IoT Cloud’s main interface is composed of five primary components – Things, devices, dashboards, integrations, and templates, as shown in Figure 3.1. Each component has its own properties, which will be discussed in detail in this section.

Figure 3.1 – Arduino IoT Cloud components

Figure 3.1 – Arduino IoT Cloud components

Things, devices, and dashboards are highly coupled with each other in every project. For example, for even a small project, we require a Thing and a device to get onboard the cloud platform. Is it enough to just configure a Thing and a device? No – a dashboard is also mandatory, from which the user can give input to the Thing and over which the system can show Thing data for user visualization.

However, integrations are a more optional component, with use cases varying from project to project and only being used by developers when they want to connect any non-compatible device to the Arduino...