Nowadays everyone focuses on IoT research and IoT application development. What is actually IoT ?, its Internet Of Things, bringing the internet into everything. The impact made by IoT is beyond our scope, all the future application will come under IoT. Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning etc. IoT is like a magic technology which is powerful to do many things. Home Automation is the coming trend under this. Managing appliances, instruments, Conditions etc. If we simplify IoT application it Basically it has one sensor, IoT server, and one actuator.
The sensor will collect the data and processed in server and actions will take place in the actuator. The sensor can be anything like temperature sensor, pressure sensor etc, and the actuator can be Stepper motor, Display etc. IoT server can be built with many development boards which are available in the market, like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Intel Galileo etc.
We have plenty of programming languages available in the market for developing IoT server like Python, node.js, c, c++, MatLab, Arduino, Java etc. Among these programming languages python is recommended language for developing IoT related applications. It has built in libraries and tools to access hardware parts and very easy to use. Raspberry Pi development board supports Python as programing language.
As per my experience, i am using Arduino Development boards and Arduino programming language to build simple IoT applications like Home Automation, Temperature Sensing, Pressure Sensing, GPS Tracking, Gas Sensing etc. Arduino is a powerful development board to built different IoT applications. We have plenty of tutorials available on the internet to build this kind of applications. In coming technology era this will be one of the most leading technologies around the world. Many programmers have simplified and interfaced Arduino development using different programming languages which are familiar to programmers like Javascript, Php etc. The major advantage of these development boards is that we don’t need to know advanced electronics or embedded technologies, even a computer programmer also can implement advanced electronics applications. Only we need to know is about sensors, output modules, connections etc. Nowadays Arduino development board has become one of most selling development board all around the market.
What is Arduino?
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy to use hardware and software. It's intended to everyone making interactive projects. Arduino boards are able to read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language(based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.
Being one Arduino developer is like being an IoT expert. Using Arduino making interactive electronics applications is like printing “Hello World”. The main advantage of Arduino development board is that User experience and cost of production. Even a nooby can create an application which cost less than $50 (300 Rupees). As per new releases in 2017, Arduino has launched a web editor for programming applications. Now we don't need to waste out storage space to keep the Arduino IDE, all we need is one extension which will connect our development board into the web applications.
This year we can expect more developers who like making IoT application as well as more interactive real life needed applications which simplify our lifestyle Since Arduino is simple as “Hello World”.
