Building an IoT Device Abstraction Layer in Go

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

IoT applications get hard to maintain when hardware code and application logic are tangled together. A prototype can read one GPIO pin or one I2C sensor directly. A real system has sensors, actuators, timing loops, message publishing, local storage, APIs, dashboards, and failures that happen at the edge.

The useful boundary is a device abstraction layer: hardware-specific drivers stay below it, application logic stays above it, and the two communicate through small interfaces.

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Building an IoT Device Abstraction Layer in Go