What is Blynk?
Blynk is an Internet-of-Things platform designed to make development and implementation of smart IoT devices quick and easy. It can be used to read, store, and visualize sensor data and control hardware remotely.
Internet of Things has been all the buzz lately and more and more devices are being talking to internet every day. With the rise of such amazing technology, the risk of security has also increased substantially. Some of the major concerns in IoT are:
- If IoT devices are sending your data to the internet, the communication needs to be closed and encrypted which cannot be possible without using a dedicated and closed server which is really hard to manage.
- The IoT devices also need to be responsive and again, that is not possible without a server with low latency and high responsiveness.
- In IoT, the platform needs to be compatible with many different types of hardware architecture and devices, so that it doesn’t restrict its users with single type of hardware with limited capabilities.
Keeping in view the problems mentioned above, Blynk is the perfect solution for all these problems. Blynk consists of the following three major components:
Blynk App – The mobile app developed by Blynk works as a control panel for visualizing and controlling your hardware. It is available for both Android and iOS. The app offers a very productive interface and various different widgets for different purposes. Blynk works on a currency of its own called energy. New users get 2000 amount of Blynk energy with a free Blynk account and this energy is used to buy and deploy widgets in the projects.
Blynk Server – The most amazing component of the Blynk Platform which makes it all possible is the Blynk Server. Blynk offers a secure, responsive and centralized cloud service through its server which allows all of this communication between the devices. The Blynk server is also available as open source so you can literally make your own server and make it even more secure with a little tinkering.
Blynk Library – The key feature of Blynk platform which makes it scalable and amazing, is the Blynk Library. The Blynk Library makes it possible to connect your hardware and get it up and running in a blink. The support for multiple hardware devices including Arduino, ESP8266 and Raspberry Pi is included in the library and it also makes it possible to connect with hardware through many different ways of communication like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE, USB and GSM.
A series of Blynk Tutorials are coming on our website, stay tuned!
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