Introducing the Arduino IoT Cloud interface

The Arduino IoT Cloud’s main interface is composed of five primary components – Things, devices, dashboards, integrations, and templates, as shown in Figure 3.1. Each component has its own properties, which will be discussed in detail in this section.

Figure 3.1 – Arduino IoT Cloud components

Things, devices, and dashboards are highly coupled with each other in every project. For example, for even a small project, we require a Thing and a device to get onboard the cloud platform. Is it enough to just configure a Thing and a device? No – a dashboard is also mandatory, from which the user can give input to the Thing and over which the system can show Thing data for user visualization.

However, integrations are a more optional component, with use cases varying from project to project and only being used by developers when they want to connect any non-compatible device to the Arduino...