Preliminary design of mobile visual programming apps for Internet of Things applications based on Raspberry Pi 3 platform

Abstract

Learning about sensor technology and actuator early is important as a step towards knowing and introducing of advanced technologies based on Internet of Things (IoT). The difficulties are how to learn sensor technology and move the actuator with accessing General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) of Raspberry Pi 3 Platforms using programming language syntax which often confusing and difficult to understand. To help people learning IoT by using Raspberry Pi 3 with an interesting Android apps, we believe that this learning module can integrate about the ease and attractiveness of IoT System Editor based on Android apps. This research create a mobile programming apps based on Android which people can build IoT project easily with GUI without program and middleware based on Raspberry Pi to connect between apps and hardware with especially task to manage data communication, data flow, and device driver. Hopefully new developer can develop the IoT application easily by using Android mobile visual programming that combined with Raspberry Pi 3 platform.