Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

Troubleshooting

A real-life implementation of smart inventory management can have many challenges just like any typical wireless ad hoc sensor networks. Here, we highlight a few of the challenges you might face to make your project experience almost glitch free:

1. When there are multiple motion sensors and multiple RFID tags all working together, messages don't transmit reliably due to a high load on the network infrastructure (routers, network switches, and so on) as well as the microcontrollers and servers, causing packet drops. To troubleshoot such issues, a programmer should have a thorough understanding of the network environment, and the messaging software should be set up with the right values for parameters like QoS.
2. Most IoT devices use sensors ...