A core sensors framework provides a sensor types registry, a sensor manager, and three simple QIODevice-based sensor types as follows:

• TCP socket
• UDP socket
• Serial port

A sensor manager is attached to project instances that allows users to register sensors within their project files. Contrary to other inputs such as a positioning device, sensors are considered to be much more project-specific data inputs. The big advantage of project-based sensors is that it makes those much more portable and easier to share across users.
A new sensor_data() function is added to the project scope which is available using expressions, that returns the latest captured sensor data values for a specific sensor name. An optional expiration (in milliseconds) parameter allows for expressions that will reject a specific sensor value is older that the provided expiration value.