Marco Schwartz - Internet of Things with the Arduino Yún

Internet of Things with the Arduino Yn

Projects to help you build a world of smarter things Marco Schwartz

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Internet of Things with the Arduino Yn

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Cover Image by Shweta Suresh Karkera ( shwetaimages@gmail.com ) Credits

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Marco Schwartz Tanvi Gaitonde

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Reviewers

Fiore Basile Project Coordinator

Charalampos Doukas Melita Lobo

Francis Perea

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About the Author

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Suplec in France, and a master's degree in Micro Engineering from the EPFL in Switzerland. Marco has more than fve years of experience in the domain of electrical engineering. His interests gravitate around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing.

About the Reviewers

Fiore Basile is a programmer, system administrator, creative, entrepreneur, and maker. Since 1996, he has served as a project manager, consultant, and technology offcer in industrial and research projects of varied sizes across Italy and Europe. He has worked in the felds of cultural heritage, e-health, digital preservation, multimodal interfaces, and web and mobile publishing. During his career, he has also started two IT start-ups, held workshops at international conferences and events, and has been interviewed by national and international press. His work experience allowed him to build a broad expertise in systems, web and mobile software development, open source and open hardware, embedded programming, and electronics. He's currently conducting research on wearable technologies, affective computing, and smart connected devices. He also works as the coordinator of FabLab Cascina, a digital fabrication laboratory in the middle of Tuscany. Charalampos Doukas is a researcher and an IoT maker. He started playing with sensors and Arduinos in 2008 when trying to capture and transmit vital signs. He is passionate about combining different hardware systems with software and services using the Internet. He helps in spreading knowledge about open source software and hardware by organizing sessions in workshops and conferences.

He has built many projects around home monitoring and automation. He contributes hardware nodes for Node-RED and has also authored the book, Building Internet of Things with the Arduino , CreateSpace .

When Charalampos is not playing with sensors and actuators, he manages European research projects at CREATE-NET in Trento, Italy.

Francis Perea is a professional education professor at Consejera de Educacin Junta de Andaluca in Spain with more than 14 years of experience. He specializes in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with multimedia, a small design studio in Crdoba, working as a system administrator and main web developer.

He also collaborated as a technical reviewer on the book, SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization , Thomas Bleicher and Robin de Jongh , Packt Publishing . When he is not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering in his workshop, he can be found running or riding his bike through the tracks and hills in Axarqua County, where he lives.

I would like to thank my wife, Salom, and our three kids, Paula,

lvaro, and Javi, for all the support they gave me, even when we

were all busy. There are no words that would be enough to express my gratitude.

I would also like to thank my colleagues in multimedia and my

patient students. The need to be at the level you demand is what

keeps me going forward.

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Table of Contents

The required hardware and software components 10

Connecting the sensors to the Arduino Yn board 11

Creating a Temboo account 15

Sending data to Google Docs and displaying it 16

Creating automated e-mail alerts 21

Making your Arduino Yn board tweet sensor data 23

Summary 26 Chapter 2: Creating a Remote Energy Monitoring and

The required hardware and software components 28