Sensors Unleashed

A Community driven sensor network

About

The Sensors Unleashed project was started in the spring of 2016. The goal of the project, is to create a simple, yet powerfull sensor network, where one device can be paired with one or more devices. There is no central control unit - a device knows only about its connection, nothing else.

This project is started because I found that there was a lag of a true open alternative to commercial products. Commercial products has a tendency to focus more inwards, than on its customers - they often use closed source software, non documented, encrypted communication to the outside world, and personal privacy is translated to big data and commercial interests. I understand the strategy, but I don't agree on it.

This project will focus on the exact opposite.

I hope that this project will evolve to a community driven project - meaning, designers, coders, inventors, entreprenours etc are more than welcome to join. The more the marrier.

I invite all interested in this project to start following our blog and if interested in helping out, please see our Github wiki page, or contact me directly on [email protected]

The projet is kindly hosted by Github

Open collaboration

Have an idea to a new kind of sensor? Lets build it - together. Know anything about mechanical design - please consider sharing your ideas. Need a new feature in an existing sensor - please shout it, and we will help you have it.

For updates, please follow the project on github or on the blog.

Open source Software

Security - Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Quality - the more developers, the better code.
Freedom - No vendor lock-in.
Interoperability - Connect to anything you want.
Privacy - The data is yours, and yours only!

Find it all on github

Open Hardware

All the design files for all the devices are available from the github repository. This way, everyone can inspect, improve and comment on the design, and together we’ll have the best devices available. What good is design files, if it takes a 8000$ program to use them. Therefore hardware will be designed using FreeCad, OpenSCAD and KiCAD.