Smart and connected IoT sensors for your IoT edge design

Human beings experience the external environment in many ways. Vision, hearing, sense of touch (surface sensation), and senses of taste and smell (chemical sensation) - all provide sensory information about one’s surroundings. The sensed information reaches the brain through the peripheral nervous system. The brain, being the final decision maker, decides how to respond to a given condition or experience. The brain often utilizes several sources of sensory input to validate an event and compensate for a lack of ‘sufficient and complete’ information to make a decision. The Digital Nervous System comprises of Cameras and Microphones for Eyes and Ears, GPS Sensors for Location Data and Temperature to Pressure Changes measured using Sensory Organs. Sensor technology advancements have happened upto such an extent to rightly imitate the ultimate sensing machine .. the human being. The sensor technology, using sensor fusion, leverages a microcontroller (the brain) to fuse the individual data collected from multiple sensors to result in an accurate and reliable form. Sensor fusion creates a situation in which the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts as well as enables context awareness. Sensors, devices and people connected to each other and to enable a form of free-flowing conversation between man and machine, hardware and software is the “Internet of Things”. IoT ...