Staging Sensor Development
What you’ll learn:
- What is SensorStage?
- How does SensorStage improve the development process?
TDK’s SensorStage is an open-source, development and evaluation system that supports the company’s collection of sensors and compute solutions (see figure). It provides a software framework for devices like TDK’s inertial measurement unit (IMU). I talked with Jim Lin, Director for Software Applications Engineering at TDK, about SensorStage and its implications for embedded developers using TDK intelligent Invensense sensors.
SensorStage can help with functions such as gesture recognition using an IMU. It also aids in the detection of single tap, double tap, walking, and so on. Some sensors allow machine-learning models to run on the devices, thereby reducing communication overhead and offloading the host processor.
The SensorStage software works with TDK’s development platforms, including its Arduino development boards. Furthermore, it supports Python-based scripting to automate tasks.
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