Headless external sensor discovery and data access using mobile device

One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed by a headless sensor device, cause the headless sensor device to:

• receive one or more discovery function calls from a mobile computing device;
• transmit a sensor type indicative of a type of a sensor head and a sensor payload format indicative of a format of packets to be transmitted to the mobile computing device in response to receipt of the one or more discovery function calls;
• measure, by the sensor head, an amount of data from an environment of the headless sensor device in response to receipt of a measurement function call from the mobile computing device;
• generate a measurement payload packet from the amount of data measured from the environment, the measurement payload packet formatted according to the sensor payload format;
• and
• transmit the measurement payload packet to the mobile computing device.

A method for collecting measurement data from a headless sensor device, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a processing logic of the headless sensor device, one or more discovery function calls from a mobile computing device;
• transmitting, by the processing logic, a sensor type indicative of a type of a sensor head and a sensor payload format indicative of a format of packets to be transmitted to the mobile computing device in response to receiving the one or more discovery function calls;
• measuring, by the sensor head, an amount of data from an environment of the headless sensor device in response to receiving a measurement function call from the mobile computing device;
• generating, by the processing logic, a measurement payload packet from the amount of data measured from the environment, the measurement payload packet formatted according to the sensor payload format;
• and
• transmitting, by the processing logic, the measurement payload packet to the mobile computing device.