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Muhammad Afzal
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Muhammad Afzal

Muhammad Afzal is a senior software engineer, with more than 14 years of experience working on web-based and IoT systems in multinational organizations. He always enjoys working and solving real-world business problems with technology. He provides freelance services to IoT-based product companies to write technical reviews and projects, and he also provides consultancy to organizations. In his free time, Muhammad creates videos and courses for YouTube and Udemy. He also runs a maker movement in his region for young students to boost their interest in adopting the latest technologies.
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Setting up the notification service

Multiple platforms provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) infrastructure and operate as a bridge between a variety of applications to make interoperability easy. Platforms for this purpose include Zapier, IFTTT, and Integromat, and provide an interface to integrate other platforms into the Arduino IoT Cloud platform to fulfill the requirements instead of developing the required features from scratch.

So firstly, we need to understand why we need the Zapier automation platform. In our current project, we want to send notifications by email/SMS when a specific threshold is met, but the Arduino IoT Cloud only provides the data visualization, webhooks, and API functionalities. We have two options to solve this problem. Either we need to develop a custom solution to send notifications by email/SMS using Arduino webhooks and APIs, or we can use an automation platform such as Zapier or IFTTT, which will save time and reduce costs compared to the first...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837637171

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Muhammad Afzal

Muhammad Afzal is a senior software engineer, with more than 14 years of experience working on web-based and IoT systems in multinational organizations. He always enjoys working and solving real-world business problems with technology. He provides freelance services to IoT-based product companies to write technical reviews and projects, and he also provides consultancy to organizations. In his free time, Muhammad creates videos and courses for YouTube and Udemy. He also runs a maker movement in his region for young students to boost their interest in adopting the latest technologies.
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