On the development of flexible mobile multi-sensor units based on open-source hardware platforms and a reference framework

Franklin Oliveira; Daniel G Costa; Ivanovitch Silva

doi:10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00243

On the development of flexible mobile multi-sensor units based on open-source hardware platforms and a reference framework

HardwareX. 2021 Oct 24:10:e00243. doi: 10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00243. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Franklin Oliveira¹, Daniel G Costa², Ivanovitch Silva³

Affiliations

¹ UEFS-PGCC, State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
² UEFS-DTEC, Department of Technology, State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
³ UFRN-DCA, Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.

Abstract

For some IoT applications, mobile entities are considered as the main source of sensed data, requiring the attachment of sensor modules on them. The endowing of sensing capabilities to such mobile entities can be performed in different ways, but the adoption of a reference hardware framework can bring a series of advantages, specially in dynamic complex scenarios. This article exploits the MSensorMob2 multi-sensor hardware framework for monitoring in areas with disconnection periods, comprising sensing, transmission and reconfiguration functions. Comprehensive analyses on multiple open-source hardware platforms are conducted, assessing their costs, deployment constraints and performance issues when implementing this development framework.

Keywords: Development framework; Internet of Things; Mobile sensing; Open-source hardware platforms; Smart cities.