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From Sensor to Screen - Hooking up LoRaWAN to Peakboard via The Things Network

July 12, 2026 • 11 mins read

From Sensor to Screen - Hooking up LoRaWAN to Peakboard via The Things Network

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Before we touch a single piece of Peakboard, let’s quickly clarify what we are actually dealing with. LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is a low-power wireless protocol designed for small amounts of data over very long distances, sometimes several kilometers in open terrain. The radios are cheap, the batteries...

I/O, Let's Go - Advantech ADAM-6051

May 11, 2026 • 6 mins read

I/O, Let's Go - Advantech ADAM-6051

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In this blog, we’ve discussed a few different ways to integrate sensors into a Peakboard application. We can find an overview of these articles in The hitchhiker’s guide to I/O devices. In today’s article, we’ll take a look at the ADAM-6051 by Advantech. The ADAM-6051 is a compact, Ethernet-based I/O...

Peakboard Meets Shelly - Building a Smart Dashboard for Tracking Temperature and Humidity

April 01, 2025 • 4 mins read

Peakboard Meets Shelly - Building a Smart Dashboard for Tracking Temperature and Humidity

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Over two years ago, we published two articles about Shelly products: One about how to use the button and another about how to use the power plug. A lot of time has passed since then, and many readers have come back and have actually used Shelly products in a professional...

DIY Guide - Transform Your Peakboard Box into an MQTT Server

February 21, 2025 • 3 mins read

DIY Guide - Transform Your Peakboard Box into an MQTT Server

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On this blog, we’ve explored many projects that use MQTT to communicate between Peakboard apps and sensors and other hardware and software entities. MQTT is a nice and easy option to couple all these entities together. Especially because there’s no need for the entities to “know” each other. They just...

I/O, Let's Go - Going crazy for Pepperl+Fuchs IO-Link-Master ICE2-8IOL-G65L-V1D

November 25, 2024 • 4 mins read

I/O, Let's Go - Going crazy for Pepperl+Fuchs IO-Link-Master ICE2-8IOL-G65L-V1D

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In this blog, we’ve discussed a few different ways to integrate sensors into a Peakboard application. You can see an overview of these articles in The hitchhiker’s guide to I/O devices. In today’s article, we’ll take a look at a sophisticated and slightly more expensive type of I/O module—an IO-Link...

Barcode Bliss - Part III - Bringing ProGlove and SAP together - Transfer Order Use Case

October 25, 2024 • 7 mins read

Barcode Bliss - Part III - Bringing ProGlove and SAP together - Transfer Order Use Case

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In part one and part two of our ProGlove mini-series, we discussed the basics of integrating ProGlove scanners into Peakboard applications. We used both the USB and MQTT modes to get the scan event and related metadata. We also discussed options to send feedback to the scanner operator, such as...

I/O, Let's go - Understanding the Advantech WISE-4012 module and use Peakboard to do some magic with it

October 17, 2024 • 4 mins read

I/O, Let's go - Understanding the Advantech WISE-4012 module and use Peakboard to do some magic with it

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In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed two I/O modules provided by ICP DAS: the ET-2254 and the U-7560M. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Advantech WISE-4012. This module provides a network connection via Wi-Fi. It offers two digital-only outputs and four analog/digital inputs. We will look...

I/O, Let's go - The hitchhiker's guide to I/O devices

September 15, 2024 • 5 mins read

I/O, Let's go - The hitchhiker's guide to I/O devices

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In this blog, we’ve explained how to connect various devices to Peakboard, and build beautiful applications. One family of devices is I/O devices. These are used to connect any kind of sensor, like light barriers, buttons, and temperature sensors. On the output side, we often see actors like traffic lights...

Barcode Bliss - Part II - Sending Feedback to ProGlove Scanners

August 30, 2024 • 6 mins read

Barcode Bliss - Part II - Sending Feedback to ProGlove Scanners

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In the first part of our ProGlove miniseries, we discussed the basics of integrating ProGlove scanners into Peakboard applications. We used both the USB and MQTT modes to get the scan event, along with some metadata. In the third part of the series we will build a full blown use...

I/O, Let's Go - Unleashing the ICP DAS U-7500 series for cool I/O action with OPC UA

August 22, 2024 • 4 mins read

I/O, Let's Go - Unleashing the ICP DAS U-7500 series for cool I/O action with OPC UA

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In a previous article, we discussed an I/O module made by the Taiwan-based company ICP DAS. In today’s article, we will discuss another I/O module from the U-7500 series: the U-7560. It has 6 digital inputs and 6 relay outputs. The main difference is that it supports OPC UA as...

Barcode Bliss - Part I - Integrating ProGlove Scanners with Peakboard

August 14, 2024 • 5 mins read

Barcode Bliss - Part I - Integrating ProGlove Scanners with Peakboard

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ProGlove creates next-generation barcode scanners that are integrated into a glove, so the user can scan barcodes without having to pick up and put down a conventional barcode scanner. The scanner is always “at hand.” For readers who’ve never seen a ProGlove scanner before, here’s what it looks like: In...

I/O, Let's Go - Unleashing the ICP DAS ET-2254 with MQTT and Peakboard

August 06, 2024 • 4 mins read

I/O, Let's Go - Unleashing the ICP DAS ET-2254 with MQTT and Peakboard

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ICP DAS is a Taiwan-based company that sells industrial components for automation. In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at ET-2254, a 16-channel I/O module that provides digital input and output pins, and comes with a cool MQTT interface that makes it easy to create a stable connection to...

Integrating Node-RED and Peakboard - Part II - Sending Alerts to a Peakboard application

April 07, 2024 • 4 mins read

Integrating Node-RED and Peakboard - Part II - Sending Alerts to a Peakboard application

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In this two-part article series, we discuss some best practices for integrating Peakboard with Node-RED applications. Most of the time, communication between Node-RED and the outside world happens through MQTT or HTTP. We will use the HTTP option: Part I - Real-time calculator - How to send information from Peakboard...

Integrating Node-RED and Peakboard - Part I - Real-time calculator

March 23, 2024 • 3 mins read

Integrating Node-RED and Peakboard - Part I - Real-time calculator

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In this two-part article series, we discuss some best practices for integrating Peakboard with Node-RED applications. Most of the time, communication between Node-RED and the outside world happens through MQTT or HTTP. We will use the HTTP option: Part I - Real-time calculator - How to send information from Peakboard...

Dismantle the smart.click Button - How to build an order and alert system with a narrowband IoT button

February 13, 2024 • 6 mins read

Dismantle the smart.click Button - How to build an order and alert system with a narrowband IoT button

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In today’s article, we will discuss narrowband IoT devices. Narrowband IoT devices are usually not connected to any kind of Wi-Fi or local company network. Instead, they use the cellular network to connect to a server. For technical details, see this Wikpedia article on Narrowband IoT. The device we will...

Fun with n8n.io - Catch a Zendesk ticket and use complex MQTT to process it in Peakboard

March 27, 2023 • 3 mins read

Fun with n8n.io - Catch a Zendesk ticket and use complex MQTT to process it in Peakboard

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This article combines several technologies and explains how to use them. Here’s the goal: Every time a ticket is created in Zendesk, it should be sent to a Peakboard announcement board informing the viewer about the new ticket. Here are the steps to do it, with the help of n8n.io:...