3Beam AIoT LED Black Board

Project description

The 3Beam AIoT LED Black Board Cluster monitors your space in real-time tracking environment, interaction, and energy. Smarter than a hub, cooler than Tidbyt, and less creepy than Alexa. Like a Nest thermostat that gets the whole room.

Context

Unlike typical screens or ambient display gadgets, this product leverages a LED matrix with a higher resolution combined with sensors (light, motion, sound, temperature) and local AI on Raspberry Pi or Pico microcontrollers. It supports real-time visualization, environmental awareness, and inter-device clustering for multi-board scenarios.

Key differentiators include:
1. AIoT capabilities with on-device intelligence for privacy-first data processing.
2. Plug-and-play deployment suitable for startups, schools, and enterprise clusters.
3. STEAM-ready: Supports art, design, programming, electronics, and AI in education.
4. Scalable architecture: from single-board setups to admin-managed multi-node systems.
5. Design-focused: retro ambient form factor with configurable behaviors (dashboards, alerts, art).

Its modular software architecture built with C++ and Python modules, using CI/CD, GitHub integration, and a plugin-ready API makes it as extensible as it is powerful. It’s lightweight, open, and perfect for both enterprise monitoring and creative expression.

By embedding sensor feedback, local data visualization, and collaborative modes, this board offers a next-gen interaction paradigm. It enables hands-on input, AI-enhanced output, and tangible computing all in a retro-futuristic, energy-efficient form.

Results

Working functional prototype. From concept to realization.

About the project group

The project started as an internship assignment at TMC. And is continued with Fontys ICT Delta & Open Learning students. This semester we had two teams working. Students with Technology, Software & Infrastructure backgrounds.

About the members:

Artur Kraskov (sem 6)
ICT & Open Learning, Delta

Richard Balis (sem 2)
Background: Infrastructure

Kiet Ho (sem 6)
Background: C/C++ programming, Embedded systems/Software, Communication protocols, and Machine

Harm Nieuwland (sem 6)
Background: Embedded systems engineering, Modbus, C programming, STM32, wired communication protocols, oud (unc status), lingo god

Copik Damian (sem 2)
Background: Software (Full-stack web development), Embedded systems

Tom Koppelmans (sem 6)
Background: Embedded systems, Cyber security

Jean Roosje (Deux 3x)
Background: C/C++, Embedded Systems and Unity

Timo Enserink (Delta, sem 2)
Background: C#, Java anything OOP related, designing / programming. Also, can do frontend but do not like it too much

Kraak Ard (sem 6)
Background: Embedded systems engineering, Cellular communication, Communication protocols, Low level programming, Cyber security

Zavid Worm (sem 4)
Background: Full stack web development, desktop software development, infrastructure management, containerization

Corra Heesakkers (sem 3)
Background: UX design, front end development, Linux

Sil Meinders (sem 6)
Background: Embedded systems/software, Communication protocols, Cyber security, Lidar, Point clouds.

Video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VwIxb3GWlaYwLg0uGetnEudmyRjkFQJX/view