I'm just begun working on a project where the objective is to collect real time data from 20 or so ESP8266 modules. I've inherited working code from another student, however, the update frequency is not sufficiently fast. We hope to collect data at a frequency of between 50-100 Hz but in the current state we are getting at best 20-30 Hz with only a couple of ESP modules.
The system works in the following way:
A computer running MATLAB requests the data from each ESP in turn. The data is then received and processed in MATLAB.
My questions are:
Do you know if anybody has attempted something like this before?
Do you think it will be possible to accomplish this speed using the UDP protocol or is there a better option?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Alex