Loom: Plug and Play Wireless Sensor Actuator Platform for Rapid Prototyping New Instrumentation
Abstract
Low-cost high-precision wirelessly-connected instrumentation for distributed sensing would enable researchers to measure and track changes in the environment at scales not previously feasible. Despite decreasing cost of electronic components and increasing capability of rapid prototyping technologies like 3D printing, significant technological barriers and requisite skillsets continue to prevent researchers from integrating wireless sensors, control, and networked data technologies in research and practice. To address these challenges, an opensource, low-cost, plug-and-play wireless sensor and control system called Loom will be presented. Loom enables students and researchers with no electronics or programming experience to rapidly prototype distributed sensor networks, online data loggers, and instrumentation. The complexities of sensor and controller design are broken into reconfigurable, modular components that can be assembled, recombined, and dynamically turned on and off to produce unique devices and systems. Loom is unique to other sensor development platforms in that it supports seamless communication between many different kinds of wireless protocols including WiFi, Bluetooth Low-Energy, GFSK RF, GSM, and LoRa. These other low-power wireless chipsets enable Loom to relay data across areas of up to 26km to reach an Internet hub - moving data from remote locations to cloud storage and user applications accessible anywhere in the world in near real-time. In this presentation, Dr. Udell will present an overview and technical walkthrough using the Loom system.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMIN13B..05U
- Keywords:
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- 9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields;
- GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUSDE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields;
- GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUSDE: 1920 Emerging informatics technologies;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1972 Sensor web;
- INFORMATICS