我am new to the Dialog IOT Sensor Kit. The hardware seems very good - form factor is great for a wearable as compared to the TI Sensortag. However, getting started is not easy at all. Before I give up I thought I would come here and ask some basic questions.
1. Why is it that the documentation and the software require multiple requests with "approvals". And that those of us with gmail addresses will be frowned upon. If this is meant to excite lots of people and is supposed to compete with the TI Sensortag (on one of the videos, the Principal FAE kept saying SensorTag to refer to Dialog kit :-) then the docs and sw need to be freely available.
2. Can I program using the MAC (or Linux) or do I have to have a Windows machine ? What version of Windows 7 or 8 or 10 or it does not matter ?
3. What is needed to program the sensor ? From what I can glean I need SmartSnippets and the SDK 5.0.3. But which version of SmartSnippets ?
4. Why is the kit called 12 DOF when there is a 6-axis IMU and a 3-axis Magnetometer ? How much memory is available to store data if the phone is not connected ? Where do I look to see how this memory can be increased ?
5. I am not even sure if this is the right Forum as there was no drop down for the IOT Sensor kit.
谢谢
Hi aj8uppal,
1) Thats the standard process that Dialog follows in order to legalize the distribution of the SDK, you will have to agree with the license and terms in order get access to the SDK and the documentation.
2) All dialog's projects are builded using keil and the Smart Snippets tool is available only for windows machine, as far as i know there is no keil version for MAC, so you will have to use windows, a virtual machine should do.
3)后期st version (which is uploaded on the support site) will do.
4) The IoT project has also an enviromental sensor (temperature, humidity and pressure). The application doesn't store the data, it just streams that data to the phone that its connected, the 583 has an internal flash where it stores some configuration settings and off course the code (when the 583 boots the code is downloaded from the internal flash into the 583 sysram). What do you mean to increase the memory ?
5) There's no special forum for the IoT kit, the Hardware (device & reference designs) section should be the proper place for that question but since you have
multiple questions regarding the tools this section would do as well.
Thanks MT_dialog
谢谢你的回应。我do have the SDK, it is just that the process seemed lengthy.
我n terms of the memory use, the use case is that the mobile device will not be continuously connected to the sensor. Either because it has moved out of the range or the application has disconnected or a host of other reasons. In my application, I need to count the number of peaks in the magnetometer per unit of time. So without some persistent storage on the sensor and a "sync" facility (like many wearables today). I would need to sync to an IOT Gateway with the persistent storage. So my questions are:
a) Can you point me to a reference design with memory on the sensor and a sync facility OR
b) Any pointer to a library or software that I can run on an IOT gateway like a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone.
The advantage of the Gateway is that I will then write the sensor data to a time-series in the cloud and the access can then be from anywhere.
A.J.
Hi aj8uppal,
The default implementation just connects with an android or a iOS phone and streams data, the phone application keeps a log of the data if that helps in any way. As i ve previously mentioned there is no storage for the data on the sensor or a recommended sync facility that you can store your data.
Unfortunatelly i am not aware of any library or software implementation that can interact with a Raspberry or a BeagleBone kit over bluetooth.
Thanks MT_dialog