Lab 7: Cloud Platforms

7A: ThingSpeak

Here are screenshots of ThingSpeak running successfully on the Raspberry Pi. It was cool to see how quickly I can have the Pi report CPU and Memory information through the cloud to be viewable from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. I'm sure adding sensor information such as temperature or pressure would be very useful use cases for this technology.

7B: Google Sheets

Incorporating the Google Cloud Platform to relay CPU usage also proved to be quite simple using the code from the GitHub repository from Lesson 7. Compared to ThingSpeak, Using Google Sheets proves to be a nicer solution since the data is now already in Google Sheets and saved on Google Drive so it can be access by any smartphone or computer with an internet connection. The platform is also much more familiar than ThingSpeak which may be a more niche IoT software. The CPU data can be found here.