# Can your perform Parallel Processing in Arduino?

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**Created:** [November 29, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-your-perform-parallel-processing-in-arduino/15949 "2019-11-29T12:28:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://discourse.processing.org/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-your-perform-parallel-processing-in-arduino/15949/1 "2019-11-29T12:28:40Z")

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I need to integrate 4 different types of sensors with different sampling frequencies to Arduino. Is Arduino capable of performing parallel data acquisition in real-time ?

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**Author:** ![Lexyth](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/lexyth/32/7403_2.png) [@Lexyth](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Lexyth)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-your-perform-parallel-processing-in-arduino/15949/2 "2019-11-29T14:35:30Z")

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Depends… aquiring Data from much more than just 4 sensors is definetly possible.

And technically it’s also possible to read from those sensors with different frequencies, but i wouldn‘t recommend it… it‘s either very complicated, or could cause a ton of problems.

The best method is to read at your highest frequency and only read the lower frequencies every other time, but that‘s also pretty problematic…

Here‘s a link to a better explanation of how that could be done (and how problematic it would be) :

> <https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/23514/reading-two-sensors-at-different-frequencies-multiple-timer3>