Setting up a dashboard for web and mobile
After uploading the code to the device, it’s time to set up a dashboard for web and mobile to visualize the data with different widgets. Complete details about widgets and their usage are available in Chapter 3. If you have directly skipped to this chapter, I recommend going back to Chapter 3 to get a detailed overview of widgets and their usage as this will help you to understand how widgets work and their usage for different use cases. The following figure demonstrates the visualization of readings with different widgets:
Figure 4.10 – The Thing dashboard
We have three different readings, Temperature, Humidity, and Air Quality. For each reading, we use different widget controls to demonstrate how they all work, but for historical data, graphs are the best widgets.
The Temperature reading is visualized by Gauge, the Humidity reading is connected to the Percentage widget, and the Air Quality reading...