This is technically very old news but it's the first time I've heard of it.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2013/02/28/adafruits-new-unified-sensor-driver/
"Essentially, it takes any supported sensor type (accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, light sensors, etc.) and converts the raw units used by the system (0..1023) into standard SI units on a specific scale. Every accelerometer using the system will report acceleration in m/s^2, pressure sensors will all use hectoPascal (hPa), light sensors use SI lux units, etc.! No more 0..1023 … you get units you understand out of the box and every time!"