Mastering Internet of Things

Publishing sensor data

Now that we have a live connection, we're ready to publish sampled sensor data. We will first need some member variables. These will store last values, last-published values, and the timestamps of last-published values:

private double? lastLight = null; 
private bool? lastMotion = null; 
private double? lastPublishedLight = null; 
private bool? lastPublishedMotion = null; 
private DateTimelastLightPublishTime = DateTime.MinValue; 
private DateTimelastMotionPublishTime = DateTime.MinValue; 

From our sampling and event methods where we receive and calculate our most recent sensor data, we call two new methods: PublishLight() and PublishMotion(). To illustrate different ways of publishing data, these two methods will publish ...