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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored how to develop a low-cost air quality monitoring system using DHT11, MQ-135, and the WeMos D1 Mini development board. We set up the Thing, which involved creating cloud variables, associating the device, configuring the network, and coding the development board. Later, we created a dashboard to visualize the Thing’s sensor readings with different types of widgets, displaying the current readings as well as historical data with the help of graphs. Through this project, you will get the confidence to set up the Thing practically and deploy it in the field using a PCB. You have learned about new types of cloud variables for sensor readings and storage, as well as dealing with different types of dashboard widgets.

In the next chapter, we will study GSM technology for IoT. We will learn about different types of global IoT SIM cards and their usage. This project will also demonstrate a Smart Assets tracing example, where we will track the asset...