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Sara Damiano edited this page Dec 14, 2018 · 20 revisions

ModularSensors

Welcome to the ModularSensors wiki!

This Arduino library gives environmental sensors a common interface of functions for use with Arduino-compatible dataloggers, such as the EnviroDIY Mayfly. The ModularSensors library is specifically designed to support wireless, solar-powered environmental data logging applications, that is, to:

  • Retrieve data from many physical sensors;
  • Save that data to a SD memory card;
  • Transmit that data wirelessly to a web server; and
  • Put the processor, sensors and all other peripherals to sleep between readings to conserve power.

The ModularSensors library coordinates these tasks by "wrapping" native sensor libraries into a common interface of functions and returns. These wrapper functions serve to harmonize and simplify the process of iterating through and logging data from a diverse set of sensors and variables. Using the common sensor and variable interface, the library attempts to optimize measurement timing as much as possible to reduce logger "on-time" and power consumption.

Although this library was written primarily for the EnviroDIY Mayfly data logger board, it is also designed to be compatible with a variety of other Arduino-based boards as well.

Data can currently be sent to these web services:

These sensors are currently supported:

Please note that the documentation in this wiki may have information that pertains to pending releases in the development branch of this repository.

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