The sensor
A compact, pebble-shaped device that goes on the platypus and measures temperature and humidity.
Connected hardware
A small sensor
for a hidden habitat.
A pebble-shaped device worn by a platypus, measuring the temperature and humidity of its burrow.
From the burrow
to the backend.
The project connects a small wearable sensor to a gateway using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The gateway receives the readings and communicates them back to a backend.
It is an environmental tracker: the useful information is the temperature and humidity around the animal, including inside its burrow.
A pebble-sized enclosure
A new CAD study of the form. Rotate it or explore the separate shells.
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New illustrative enclosure study, 48 × 34 × 14 mm. This is not the original deployed device’s CAD. Sealing, electronics and animal attachment require further engineering and validation.
Three parts of one product
The gateway
A Bluetooth Low Energy connection receives readings from the device and provides the onward link.
The backend
The destination for the environmental readings sent by the gateway.
Hardware and software,
working together.
A sensor becomes useful when its readings can reach the people who need them. This project brings a physical device, wireless communication and a backend together around that purpose.
The same approach applies to many connected products: understand what needs to be measured, make the device practical to use, and build the path from the measurement to the application.