Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things

CHAPTER 12 ■ IOT PLATFORMS

As mentioned earlier, Xively automatically generates an API key, but you have
the option to add your own key as well. In this project you are going to use the auto-
generated API key. You can locate the API key in the API Keys section of the dashboard
(see Figure  12-9 ).

Figure 12-8. F e e d I D

Figure 12-9. API keys (auto-generated and custom-generated)

Next you are going to create a channel. A channel will map directly to a sensor, that
is, data from a sensor will be received and stored by a channel. As shown in Figure  12-10 ,
click on the Add Channel button from the Channels section.