Originally published at: Webinar Recap: Collect IoT Sensor data using Golioth and Infineon ModusToolbox™ - Golioth
A few weeks ago we held a live webinar with Infineon about how to collect sensor data using the Golioth ModusToolbox™ SDK and push that data up to the Golioth Cloud. I (Chris) was an audience member for the webinar and thought I would use my experience watching from the sidelines to comment on some things that I noticed during the video. You can watch the webinar in its entirety on YouTube now. Starting from a low-cost dev kit As a hardware engineer, the first thing I notice in any demonstration is the hardware the demo is running on. In this case, Mike was showcasing the SDK running on the PSOC™ 6 CY8CPROTO-062-4343W. This is a fun, low cost board (only $28 at Digikey) with the 4343W Wi-Fi module external to the main processor. It has Infineon’s signature capacitive touch controller capability on it. The CAPSENSE™ feature is what Mike pulled into the demonstration. He utilized the touch controller to modify the brightness of an LED on a scale of 0-255. There are also cap-touch “push buttons” that can control the on/off state of that same LED. These are common use cases of cap-touch, but Mike was able to take these values and publish them to the cloud using Golioth. From there, it’s possible to view and/or chart the values in a visualization program like Grafana. Mike demonstrating the capacitive touch controller values going through Golioth to Grafana It’s not a large mental leap to consider this same function being used for larger LED lighting arrays or industrial control panels. With Golioth’s LightDB State, it’s also possible to modify the device side on/off behavior, but using the Cloud. Within the…