We'll wrap up our Firebase development and then we'll explore another database solution for IoT, InfluxDB.

Let's conclude our intro to Firebase with and example where you can also send commands to the database we created in the previous assignment. As such, we will be able not only to monitor our IoT network, but also close the loop and send different commands to potential actuators that are connected to our sensor nodes.

Use this tutorial to learn how to send commands and control GPIOs on your board. Remember that the RGB led is mapped at GPIO 25, 26 and 27 for the green boards and at GPIO 13, 14 and 15 for the blue boards.

InfluxDB is a time-series no-SQL database that is well suited to IoT projects and cloud application monitoring. It is remarkably scalable, being able to ingest millions of data points per second.

We can interface our boards to an InfluxDB database and send relevant sensor data. Follow the tutorial here and create a new InfluxDB account.