IoT Sensorbox is a self-contained IoT kit designed to help companies get started with gathering of data from various sensors. The kit consists of a computer and a range of both standard and custom developed sensors. The computer in the IoT Sensorbox can visualize data on a dashboard through Node-RED, which can also be accessed via, e.g., LAN. All sensors are connected on the outside of the Sensorbox so new variants of sensors can easily be implemented.
This solution also includes the IoT Toolkit, a backend system capable of both collecting data and visualizing it in, for example, Grafana.
I have primarily worked on the IoT Sensorbox, contributing to both its hardware and software development. I have also designed IoT experiments with a number of small and medium sized companies under the MADE initiative to help them evaluate which kinds of sensor data is valuable to them.
A few examples:
- Temperature monitoring of glue application on a production line in order to determine correlation between glue failing and temperature of the glue heating element
- A 3D-printed “buoy” containing an accelerometer for measuring movement on water surfaces
- Ambient temperature gathering in a freezer room and correlation between number of times the freezer door is opened
- Detection of people on an inflatable jumping pillow
- Energy consumption and monitoring of large industrial machines up to 25kW
