Chapter 4. Google Docs Weather Station

In this chapter, we're going to take a look at a simple weather station that can also be used as an IoT device. This time, our BeagleBone Black will collect environment data and send them to a remote database in order to be reworked and presented into a shared environment.

Both local and remote data will be available in our preferred browser since, as it's a local system, we're going to use the wfrog tool, and as remote system, we're going to use a Google Docs spreadsheet.

The basics of functioning

In this project, our BeagleBone Black will collect the weather data through two sensors. But this time, instead of writing a dedicated software, we are going to use ready-made weather station software on our BeagleBone Black board to do the job. While on the remote side, we're going to use the well known Google Docs cloud system to store the data and then present them to the user.

In this manner, we can achieve a (quasi) professional...