Arduino scheduler - timing reading sensors?

Using Arduino Sensors
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I was excited to stumble on the Arduino IoT Cloud scheduler today, I'm hoping if someone familiar with it can answer a question for me.
I have a cloud program that monitors our water supply. Because we are on metered internet I can't keep it connected to the cloud 24/7. What I want to do is connect to the cloud every hour, read the values, then disconnect. I know you can use the scheduler to turn on and off things, but can it be used just to read values and send them on?

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Hi!

Scheduler is not needed for this application.

You can use sleep mode of an ESP for example and wake up the board every X time to send data then go back to sleep.

Here you can find more details about how to use sleep mode.

Best regards.

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Thanks Fernando. Does that mean that I can tell the board to disconnect and go to sleep, then reconnect at a predetermined time?

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Yes!

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