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Don't Make These 5 Mistakes on your First Aquatic Sensor

October 6, 2021

I built a water quality monitoring device for Earth Day. My solution worked great until mother nature decided to put it to the test. I'm an embedded developer by trade and a hardware engineer by preference, so I know my way around a soldering iron.

In retrospect, my first design had a handful of mistakes you can easily learn from. There are interesting things to consider, like how to prevent water ingress using off-the-shelf enclosures, how a hot glue gun can be your best friend, how to capture/visualize sensor data remotely, how to transmit your sensor data over cellular without worrying about SIMs, and archaic modem commands, and finally how to protect yourself from catastrophic loss.

Learn:

- What to consider when selecting on off-the-shelf enclosure

- How to transport data with a snap-in module

- How to make a sensor data dashboard without coding

- My advice on where to best spend your building time

Speakers

Zak Fields

Zak has a long history in the Internet of Things starting in Windows IoT, then moving on to Azure IoT, Particle and now Blues Wireless. He is a maintainer of the Firmata open-source project, and creator of Windows Remote Arduino. Zak is most often found accidentally catching himself or something else on fire.

Hosts

Blues

Blues simplifies gathering and moving sensor data from your device or product to your cloud. Think of us as the “I” in IoT. We move data bi-directionally over the global cellular network (130+ countries) and Wi-Fi through hardware and software endpoints for the best out-of-the-box connectivity. We support all Microcontrollers and Cloud Application Endpoints, so you can build your product, your way.