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+Experiments with air quality sensors
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+Scripts in this directory talk to sensors and store data into influxdb.
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+When receiving data from sensors, they check  header and checksum to
+avoid sending garbage data. This also helps when you select wrong
+serial port, beacuse script from wrong sensor won't send invalid or
+corrupt data. Timestamp are also generated locally to mitigate any
+network latency to influxdb (which is somewhere in the cloud, and
+latency can vary just enough to create empty vertical stripes in
+graphs which is ugly and incorrect).
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