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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

Project #2 – Creating a Portable Thing Tracker Using MKR GSM 1400

This chapter is dedicated to smart transportation and smart remote monitoring. It shows how cellular communication-enabled devices can be integrated with the Arduino IoT Cloud platform, and it also offers an example of using a global IoT SIM card for communication.

Here, we will practically explore Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technologies, which are very useful in remote monitoring and control, whether they involve asset tracking or remote operation monitoring. This project uses the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 development board, which is equipped with the latest communication bands and was specially designed for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Internet of Things (IoT) use cases. This project practically explains how you can develop a tracking solution based on cellular communications for different use cases. This chapter will help you to understand cellular communication technology, global IoT SIM cards, and...