Control of an External Microcontroller using the Android Operating System
There is a critical need for rugged and portable control systems for field-deployable sensors. Since the Android is an open-source operating system, a smartphone can potentially be modified to serve as a communications device to interface with a controller and many types of experiments/sensors in the field. The communications can be wireless or via USB cables. Through this project, we have demonstrated two-way communication and control of an external Arduino microcontroller, as well as real time data acquisition, through an easy to operate GUI on an Android OS phone operating through Bluetooth wireless communication.
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