Remember the following important points about what we learned in this chapter:
- An IoT solution encompasses edge devices as well as IoT cloud platforms. We use the Arduino platform for rapidly prototyping edge devices for supporting IoT solutions.
- Some of the popular internet connectivity devices that can be used with the Arduino are: GPRS/GSM modules, ESP8266 series Wi-Fi chips, and Ethernet shields.
- A device channel is a pre-configured software defined endpoint in an IoT cloud for data exchange with an IoT edge device.
- Data can be exchanged with IoT cloud platforms using HTTP-based URLs. The correct format and URL structure will vary depending upon the IoT cloud.
- Read and write API keys are used to protect data exchange between the cloud and the edge device.
- Sometimes IoT cloud vendors may provide their custom libraries for various edge devices, for easily...
