nRF24L01 Windows 10 IoT Core Field Gateway #AdafruitIO #IoTuesday
From Bryn Lewis on Hackster.io:
For school Internet of Things(IoT) projects, I needed a robust field gateway for uploading telemetry data from a number of “cheap n cheerful” sensor nodes.
The distances involved were modest 5M (indoors) to 600M (outdoors) so a mix of Low & high power nRF24L01 wireless modules looked like a suitable choice.
After looking at several Cloud IoT Services AdaFruit.IO looked like it had sufficient flexibility and a reasonable pricing model. The security model (Feb 2018) with a shared API Key will have some challenges in wider scale deployments
Initially, I was going to use the Adafruit.IO MQTT interface but have found that getting an HTTP endpoint (fine for telemetry) white-listed in a school environment is easier.
While reading the AdaFruit.IO API documents I noticed that they have published a swagger definition of the API so I used NSwag to generate a C# client. I added a partial class with a single method to put an HTTP Header with the AdaFruit.IO API Key (see AdaFruit.IO.Swagger\APIKey.cs for details) on every request.
The field gateway hardware is Raspberry PI 2/3 based with an “off the shelf” shield (with some simple modifications).
The Field Gateway configuration is stored in a JSON file (a sample file is provided in the Github repo).
Edit [2018-03-10] application now generates an empty configuration file when first run so the one on GitHub is no longer required.
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