Building a web-based dashboard with Freeboard

The dweet.io data sharing utility allowed us to easily publish data to the cloud with just a few lines of code. Now, we are ready to use dweet.io and our thing name as a data source to build a real-time web-based dashboard. We will take advantage of freeboard.io to visualize the data collected with the sensor and published to dweet.io in many gauges and make the dashboard available to different computers and devices all over the world. Freeboard.io allows us to build a dashboard by selecting data sources and dragging and dropping customizable widgets. Freeboard.io defines itself as a cloud-based service that allows us to visualize the Internet of Things. You can read more about freeboard.io in its Webpage: http://freeboard.io.

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In our example, we will take advantage of the free services offered by freeboard.io and we won't use some advanced features that provide privacy for our dashboards but also require a paid subscription. Our dashboard will...