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LegoSENSE: An Open and Modular Sensing Platform for Rapidly-Deployable IoT Applications

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IoTDI '23: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3576842.3582369

Published: 09 May 2023 Publication History

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Domain-specific sensor deployments are critical to enabling various IoT applications. Existing solutions for quickly deploying sensing systems require significant amount of work and time, even for experienced engineers. We propose LegoSENSE, a low-cost open-source and modular platform, built on top of the widely popular Raspberry Pi single-board computer, that makes it simple for anyone to rapidly set up and deploy a customized sensing solution for application specific IoT deployments. In addition, the ‘plug and play’ and ‘mix and match’ functionality of LegoSENSE makes the sensor modules reusable, and allows them to be mixed and matched to serve a variety of needs. We show, through a series of user studies, that LegoSENSE enables users without engineering background to deploy a wide range of applications up to 9 × faster than experienced engineers without the use of LegoSENSE. We open-source the hardware and software designs to foster an ever-evolving community, enabling IoT applications for enthusiasts, students, scientists, and researchers across various application domains with or without prior experiences with embedded platforms or coding.

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Zhao MHou KXia JXia SJiang XGanesan DLane NShi W(2024)Connecting Foundation Models with the Physical World using Reconfigurable Drone AgentsProceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking10.1145/3636534.3698846(1745-1747)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636534.3698846

Index Terms

LegoSENSE: An Open and Modular Sensing Platform for Rapidly-Deployable IoT Applications
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
      1. Embedded hardware
      2. Embedded software
2. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
  2. Printed circuit boards
    1. PCB design and layout

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