Modular hardware and software integration for environmental sensor devices

A method, comprising:

• automatically detecting, via a processor, a system status of an apparatus including a microcontroller and a plurality of sensors disposed within a housing,
• selecting, via the processor, at least one of a network interface from a plurality of network interfaces or a communications protocol from a plurality of communications protocols, based on the system status and at least one of:
• a predefined application, a power availability, or a predefined battery life,
• receiving, via the processor, a representation of a measurement from each sensor of at least a subset of sensors from the plurality of sensors, collectively defining a plurality of measurements,
• in response to detecting an anomaly among the plurality of measurements:
• generating, via the processor, a message indicating the anomaly, for transmission to at least one peer compute device;
• causing the message to be broadcast to the at least one peer compute device via the selected at least one of the network interface or the communications protocol;
• and
• generating, via the processor, a signal representing the plurality of measurements to be sent, via a wireless network, to a remote compute device, and
• in response to not detecting an anomaly among the plurality of measurements:
• generating, via the processor, a signal representing the plurality of measurements to be sent, via the wireless network, to the remote compute device.