"BeagleBone Black Powered Data Concentrator for Connected Devices"

Electronic Engineering

The main task of Data Concentrators is to collect data which is originated from any devices in the network that is connected via wired or wireless interfaces and protocols such as RS232C/RS485 with Modbus, USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, GSM/GPRS, Zigbee etc. Then they process the obtained data and, in a subsequent communication, transmit the acquired data to the Head-End Server System. This paper presents our work of employing the BeagleBone Black (BBB) board as a data concentrator for connected sensor devices. In the last few years, there has been a rapid increase towards single-board microcontrollers. These days, trend has shifted towards development of full-fledged credit-card sized computer’s like Arduino Mega2560, Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, Chip and even Beaglebone Boards. These boards are low cost, low power, easy deployable and has user-friendly configurable options.The BeagleBone Black (BBB) board is a low cost, open hardware and expandable computer launched by a community of developers sponsored by Texas Instruments. Thisboard is showing tremendous increase in adaptability and implementation in diverse areas like Robotics, Drones, Smart Homes, IoT devices, Linux and Cloud Computing Servers and even more.

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