Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook

Assembled controllers

Assembled controllers, as you may have guessed, are where we pick and choose the various components that we need to build an efficient and a power-optimized sensor node.

As we have seen earlier, their setup would look like this:

Now, this is where things get interesting. Depending on the compute needed, the power requirements, and the functionality, we can choose a combination of the microcontroller and the network module.

Here the network module acts as a slave to the microcontroller.