Next Steps

As a refinement to the existing prototype, I will need to eliminate the noise of rapidly toggling the floor mat on then off, as this likely represents Fermi settling into place, and not a long-term position which the project is concerned with. Setting a time threshold is likely simple, feasible approach.

The next in the larger project is to determine the best method for particle to particle communication either by logging the sleep status into a spreadsheet or that can be read by a second particle, or by using the particle API on both ends of IFTT. It would also be worthwhile to investigate if variable monitoring is a more efficient or responsive solution than publishing events each time the state of the floor switch changes.