Using R to visualize Arduino-iot weather sensor data
Last updated: 2022-09-30
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Motivation
I have always been fascinated by the potential of open-source tools interaction, among which R (long live R!) and lately Arduino.
For those who don’t know, Arduino is an open-source hardware and software company which designs and produces microcontroller kits for the deployment of digital services, both at a professional, hobby and educational level. Furthermore, the community is very active and smart.
Here you can find many projects, including Home Automation, Robotics and even more.
To me as a data scientist with a statistical background, electronics is a black box, for this reason I chose to a 99% plug-and-play solution: Arduino Oplà IoT Kit.
If you want to know more, here’s a video introducing you the kit:
The kit comes with 4 integrated sensor measuring Humidity, Pressure, Temperature and Light.
Starting to collect data from these sensor is very simple: you just need to deploy an appropriate sketch to the mother board, which can be done through the dedicated IDE or a guided procedure.
Once everything is set up, you will have data flowing from sensors to the cloud and visibile via a dashboard hosted on Arduino Cloud, free for 12 months with the kit purchase. Here you can access mine to have an idea.
Data are stored into a cloud database and retrival of data is possible throught an API which can be queried, guess what…
R!
Project setup
The R ecosystem is constantly growing, adding new amazing productive tools such as Workflowr and Flexdashboard, which perfectly exploit Github actions in order to automatize their scope.
Furthermore, in order to make it easier to access Arduino Iot Cloud API , I developed an R package through pkgdown. The package is called Rduinoiot and can be found on CRAN.
