WICED Sense
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The WICED Sense is a new IoT device from Broadcom, offering a number of sensors and Bluetooth Low-Energy connectivity in a sturdy case.
It includes the following sensors:
- gyroscope
- accelerometer
- eCompass
- pressure
- humidity
- temperature
For more info about the WICED Sense, click here.
How to Install
To connect to the WICED Sense with Cylon, you'll need to install the cylon-wiced-sense
NPM module.
You will also need to bundle in cylon-ble
, which is needed to communicate with the device.
$ npm install cylon cylon-ble cylon-wiced-sense
How to Use
Here's a short example of getting data from the WICED Sense with Cylon:
var Cylon = require('cylon'); Cylon.robot({ connections: { bluetooth: { adaptor: 'ble', uuid: '207377654321' } }, devices: { wiced: { driver: 'wiced-sense' } }, work: function(my) { my.wiced.getData(function(err, data) { if (!!err) { console.log("Error: ", err); return; } console.log("Data: ", data); }); } }).start();
How to Connect
The WICED Sense is a Bluetooth Low-Energy device, and is paired and connected as with any other BLE device. As long as you have the needed hardware in your computer for Bluetooth LE (Bluetooth 4.0), you can connect to the WICED Sense.
For more info, check out the BLE platform page.
Drivers
Available drivers for the WICED Sense platform are listed below.