What is the best serial communication method between an Arduino and a spectral sensor? I have an Adafruit AS7262 visible spectral sensor. I want to receive the data of the sensor with an Arduino.
The sensor has two serial communication options: UART(asynchronous) or I2C(synchronous). I want to know which method is more suitable for the sensor to communicate with the Arduino microcontroller. I was thinking that UART is more suitable, because the sensor has his own master clock, in other words if I choose I2C then the Arduino needs to work as the "slave" and I dont think that is very suitable, because the Arduino has its own master clock also. For this reason I think that asynchronous method is more reliable, but I am not sure about this.
The I2C on this device is slave, not a master. Even though it has its own clock, it is designed to operate as a slave being read by a master.

You will have no issues using the I2C interface - in fact Adafruit uses it for their own software library.

Since there is already a I2C-based library available from the manufacturer I would use that, unless there is a good reason to use the UART instead.