Preparing our project

Following the same steps as outlined in the previous chapter, we will create a new Universal Windows Platform application project. This time, we call it Sensor. We can use the same hardware setup as in the previous chapter, even though we will only use the light sensor and motion detector (PIR sensor) in this project. We will also add the latest version of a new NuGet package, the Waher.Persistence.FilesLW package. This package will help us with data persistence. It takes our objects and stores them in a local object database. We can later load the objects back into the memory and search for them. This is all done by analyzing the metadata available in the class definitions, so there's no need to do any database programming. Go ahead and install the package in your new project.

The Waher.Persistence.Files package contains similar functionality, but it...