Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints
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Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints

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  2. English
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Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints

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About This Book

Develop interactive Arduino-based Internet projects with Ethernet and WiFi

About This Book

  • Build Internet-based Arduino devices to make your home feel more secure
  • Learn how to connect various sensors and actuators to the Arduino and access data from Internet
  • A project-based guide filled with schematics and wiring diagrams to help you build projects incrementally

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for those who want to learn more about Arduino and make Internet-based interactive projects with Arduino. If you are an experienced software developer who understands the basics of electronics, then you can quickly learn how to build the Arduino projects explained in this book.

What You Will Learn

  • Make a powerful Internet controlled relay with an embedded web server to monitor and control your home electrical appliances
  • Build a portable Wi-Fi signal strength sensor to give haptic feedback about signal strength to the user
  • Measure water flow speed and volume with liquid flow sensors and record real-time readings
  • Secure your home with motion-activated Arduino security cameras and upload images to the cloud
  • Implement real-time data logging of a solar panel voltage with Arduino cloud connectors
  • Track locations with GPS and upload location data to the cloud
  • Control a garage door light with your Twitter feed
  • Control infrared enabled devices with IR remote and Arduino

In Detail

Arduino is a small single-chip computer board that can be used for a wide variety of creative hardware projects. The hardware consists of a simple microcontroller, board, and chipset. It comes with a Java-based IDE to allow creators to program the board. Arduino is the ideal open hardware platform for experimenting with the world of the Internet of Things. This credit card sized Arduino board can be used via the Internet to make more useful and interactive Internet of things projects.

Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints is a project-based book that begins with projects based on IoT and cloud computing concepts. This book covers up to eight projects that will allow devices to communicate with each other, access information over the Internet, store and retrieve data, and interact with users—creating smart, pervasive, and always-connected environments. It explains how wired and wireless Internet connections can be used with projects and the use of various sensors and actuators. The main aim of this book is to teach you how Arduino can be used for Internet-related projects so that users are able to control actuators, gather data from various kinds of sensors, and send and receive data wirelessly across HTTP and TCP protocols.

Finally, you can use these projects as blueprints for many other IoT projects and put them to good use. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in the use of IoT with Arduino to develop a set of projects that can relate very well to IoT applications in the real world.

Style and approach

Every chapter in this book clearly explains how to assemble components through easy-to-follow steps on while laying out important concepts, code snippets, and expected output results so that you can easily end up with a successful project where you can also enhance or modify the project according to your requirements.

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781785285486
Edition
1

Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints


Table of Contents

Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Internet-Controlled PowerSwitch
Getting started
Hardware and software requirements
Arduino Ethernet Shield
The Arduino Ethernet board
Connecting Arduino Ethernet Shield to the Internet
Testing your Arduino Ethernet Shield
Selecting a PowerSwitch Tail
PN PSSRKT-240
PN80135
Wiring PowerSwitch Tail with Arduino Ethernet Shield
Turning PowerSwitch Tail into a simple web server
What is a web server?
A step-by-step process for building a web-based control panel
Handling client requests by HTTP GET
Sensing the availability of mains electricity
Testing the mains electricity sensor
Building a user-friendly web user interface
Adding a Cascade Style Sheet to the web user interface
Finding the MAC address and obtaining a valid IP address
Finding the MAC address
Obtaining an IP address
Assigning a static IP address
Obtaining an IP address using DHCP
Summary
2. Wi-Fi Signal Strength Reader and Haptic Feedback
Prerequisites
Arduino WiFi Shield
Firmware upgrading
Stacking the WiFi Shield with Arduino
Hacking an Arduino earlier than REV3
Knowing more about connections
Fixing the Arduino WiFi library
Connecting your Arduino to a Wi-Fi network
Wi-Fi signal strength and RSSI
Reading the Wi-Fi signal strength
Haptic feedback and haptic motors
Getting started with the Adafruit DRV2605 haptic controller
Selecting a correct vibrator
Connecting a haptic controller to Arduino WiFi Shield
Soldering a vibrator to the haptic controller breakout board
Downloading the Adafruit DRV2605 library
Making vibration effects for RSSI
Implementing a simple web server
Reading the signal strength over Wi-Fi
Summary
3. Internet-Connected Smart Water Meter
Prerequisites
Water flow sensors
Wiring the water flow sensor with Arduino
Reading pulses
Rising edge and falling edge
Reading and counting pulses with Arduino
Calculating the water flow rate
Calculating the water flow volume
Adding an LCD screen to the water meter
Converting your water meter to a web server
A little bit about plumbing
Summary
4. Arduino Security Camera with Motion Detection
Prerequisites
Getting started with TTL Serial Camera
Wiring the TTL Serial Camera for image capturing
Wiring the TTL Serial Camera for video capturing
Testing NTSC video stream with video screen
Connecting the TTL Serial Camera with Arduino and Ethernet Shield
Image capturing with Arduino
The Software Serial library
How the image capture works
Uploading images to Flickr
Creating a Flickr account
Creating a Temboo account
Creating your first Choreo
Initializing OAuth
Finalizing OAuth
Generating the photo upload sketch
Connecting the camera output with Temboo
Motion detection
Summary
5. Solar Panel Voltage Logging with NearBus Cloud Connector and Xively
Connecting a solar cell with the Arduino Ethernet board
Building a voltage divider
Building the circuit with Arduino
Setting up a NearBus account
Defining a new device
Examining the device lists
Downloading the NearBus agent
Creating and configuring a Xively account
Configuring the NearBus connected device for Xively
Developing a web page to display the real-time voltage values
Displaying data on a web page
Summary
6. GPS Location Tracker with Temboo, Twilio, and Google Maps
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Getting started with the Arduino GPS shield
Connecting the Arduino GPS shield with the Arduino Ethernet board
Testing the GPS shield
Displaying the current location on Google Maps
Getting started with Twilio
Creating a Twilio account
Finding Twilio LIVE API credentials
Finding Twilio test API credentials
Get your Twilio number
Creating Twilio Choreo with Temboo
Sending an SMS with Twilio API
Send a GPS location data using Temboo
Summary
7. Tweet-a-Light – Twitter-Enabled Electric Light
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware
Software
Getting started with Python
Installi...

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