Building custom remote sensing platforms with the Pi 3 Model B+
Author : Andrew Back, Treasurer and Director of the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
22 March 2018
PoE capable Pi provides excellent foundations for custom remote sensing platforms
Providing the basis for a remote sensing platform is just one of the many uses to which the new Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capable Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is well suited. In this tutorial, DesignSpark takes a look at the available interfacing options and some convenient approaches to integrating sensors, before giving a simple real world example which uses the DesignSpark Pmod HAT and a Python script, to take readings from a thermocouple Pmod and publish them via MQTT.
Adding sensors to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and getting data from them is made that bit easier thanks to the DesignSpark Pmod HAT and supporting library. With the combination making a neat solution for prototyping remote sensing platforms, and plenty of open source tools available that can be used to develop applications, along with IoT cloud services.
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