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+# WolkSense-Hexiwear-
+Applications for iOS and Android which pair with Hexiwear BLE devices and send sensor readings to WolkSense sensor data cloud 
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+LICENSE
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+This software is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. See LICENSE for details.