Sensor kits for monitoring and managing industrial settings

A sensor kit configured for monitoring an industrial setting, the sensor kit comprising:

• an edge device;
• and
• a plurality of sensors that capture sensor data and transmit the sensor data via a self-configuring sensor kit network, wherein the plurality of sensors includes one or more sensors of a first sensor type and one or more sensors of a second sensor type, wherein at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors comprises:
• a sensing component that captures sensor measurements and outputs instances of sensor data;
• a processing unit that generates reporting packets based on one or more instances of sensor data and outputs the reporting packets, wherein each reporting packet includes routing data and one or more instances of sensor data;
• and
• a communication device configured to receive reporting packets from the processing unit and to transmit the reporting packets to the edge device via the self-configuring sensor kit network in accordance with a first communication protocol;
• wherein the edge device comprises:
• a communication system having:
• a first communication device that receives reporting packets from the plurality of sensors via the self-configuring sensor kit network;
• and
• a second communication device that transmits sensor kit packets to a backend system via a public network;
• and
• a processing system having one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions that cause the processing system to:
• receive the reporting packets from the communication system;
• generate a block of media content frames, wherein each media content frame includes a plurality of frame values, each frame value being indicative of a respective instance of sensor data;
• compress the block of media content frames using a media codec to obtain a compressed block;
• generate one or more sensor kit packets based on the compressed block;
• and
• transmit the one or more sensor kit packets to the backend system via the public network.