TY - GEN
T1 - Extension of low-end microcontroller data storage for STEM projects without database knowledge
AU - Yao, Jiahua
AU - Zhang, Boliang
AU - Tang, Su Kit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is widely promoted in primary and secondary education. Under teachers' supervision, students can design and implement various STEM projects using low-end microcontrollers, which are famous for their low-cost and user-friendly design. However, those low-end microcontrollers' low storage capacity limits the students' design talent, as the data generated in a project is not adequately stored and analyzed. To tackle this drawback, this paper proposes a flexible data storage solution without needing database knowledge in STEM projects. It extends the storage capacity of the micro: bit microcontroller by wirelessly connecting it to the backend device, which Raspberry Pi implements. Streaming data is being sent to the backend using Bluetooth technology and will be formatted using blockchain technology for efficient storing and retrieving. Intensive simulations proved that sending collected data from sensors in low-end microcontrollers to remote devices over Bluetooth connection does not require significant resources, while big data is stored remotely.
AB - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is widely promoted in primary and secondary education. Under teachers' supervision, students can design and implement various STEM projects using low-end microcontrollers, which are famous for their low-cost and user-friendly design. However, those low-end microcontrollers' low storage capacity limits the students' design talent, as the data generated in a project is not adequately stored and analyzed. To tackle this drawback, this paper proposes a flexible data storage solution without needing database knowledge in STEM projects. It extends the storage capacity of the micro: bit microcontroller by wirelessly connecting it to the backend device, which Raspberry Pi implements. Streaming data is being sent to the backend using Bluetooth technology and will be formatted using blockchain technology for efficient storing and retrieving. Intensive simulations proved that sending collected data from sensors in low-end microcontrollers to remote devices over Bluetooth connection does not require significant resources, while big data is stored remotely.
KW - blockchain
KW - bluetooth
KW - low-end microcontroller
KW - STEM
KW - storage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85193001490&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCC59590.2023.10507539
DO - 10.1109/ICCC59590.2023.10507539
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85193001490
T3 - 2023 9th International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2023
SP - 2264
EP - 2268
BT - 2023 9th International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2023
Y2 - 8 December 2023 through 11 December 2023
ER -