For those of you being interested in external sensors for mobile phones, please check out the opensensor activity. The opensensor platform offers:

• open hardware design
• open software
• open educational material (PowerPoint and pdf)

There are already some sensor platforms on the market.Nevertheless, we have decided to design our own platform. The main reason was to have as much flexibility on the platforms possible. Flexibility refers to the number of connectable sensor parts as well as the wireless part. As the opensensor should be used for ongoing and future research project as well as for teaching purposes, the design of the board was kept as simple as possible. Throughout the evolution of the opensensor, we decided to skip the SMD technology and base the board on standard components that everybody can solder the opensensor without any special equipment. Based on standard components, the opensensor board is coming at a very low cost, which should enable a lot of researchers to implement their ideas in the field of wireless sensor networking on a real platform. As the mobile device group of AAU has a huge interest in the convergences of wireless sensors with mobile phones, the opensensor offers the possibility to communicate with commercial mobile phone. As most 3rd party solutions for wireless networking are closed solutions, we decided to make the whole opensensor concept freely available for everybody. Not just open source, but also open hardware and open teaching material. We hope to inspire other researchers to use our platform and eventually contribute to the project with more software or teaching material.

http://mobiledevices.kom.aau.dk/opensensor

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