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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

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Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things is taking the tech world by storm, and JavaScript is at its helm. This book will get you to grips with this exciting new technology. Where do Node.js, HTML5 and Windows 10 IoT Core come in with JavaScript and IoT? Why Raspberry Pi Zero rather than Arduino? How do you configure and build an IoT network from scratch? All your IoT JavaScript questions are answered in this book.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript
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Preface

Measuring the humidity for plants


In this section, we will see the testing of humidity inside a plant and the soil using a sensor:

I will now go through the main parts of this first piece of code. Then we set up the serial communication: 

int value;   
 
void setup() { 
Serial.begin(9600); 
}  

In the main loop, we will read the analog signal from the sensor:

void loop(){   
Serial.print("Humidity sensor value:"); 
Value = analogRead(0);   
Serial.print(value);   

We compare the value of the sensor and display the result on the serial interface:

if (Value<= 300)   
Serial.println(" Very wet");   
if ((Value > 300) and (Value<= 700))   
Serial.println(" Wet, do not water");    
if (Value> 700)   
Serial.println(" Dry, you need to water");  
delay(1000);  
} 

Here, the screenshot shows the results of the readings:

The following screenshot shows that the plant doesn't require water;  because it has enough...