SOL Web-Interface

Web interface for the server

Objective

Provide a visual interface to access WSN network information and centralize application data

Description

As we are deploying more and more WSNs, we want to have a central entity that interconnects all those networks. This centralization will make maintenance easier by having a unique running server code at a given time, and allow us to better exploit data by considering more environments. This platform will provide a unified interface for users to share data and monitor their networks.

Characteristics

The users must be able to:

• Register a new deployment
• Display network data (connectivity, stats, etc) and visualize the application data, see Data Visualization
• Send commands to the network motes

The administrators must be able to:

• Manage users
• Manage access tokens

Server

Hosting:

The server should be as simple as possible, possibly Python-based unless some turnkey solution is already available. As a first step, the server will be hosted at Inria or UCB. As a second step, it could be hosted as a VM image on AWS

Code:

The code will be part of the REALMS repositories and thus, freely available and open-source (BSD license).

Web-server:

The Web-server will only interact with the MongoDB database to retrieve SOL objects.

Data Sharing

TO DISCUSS: Do we want the data to be shared between users?

• Thomas: only optionally

Do we allow private deployment? (give the choice to the user)

• Thomas: yes

Do we share only the connectivity data and not the sensors readings?

• Thomas: Good idea

Data accessible only by admins?

• Thomas: All data for sure will be accessible by all admins

Data Visualization

The users must be able to:

• List all the motes and each of their attached sensors/actuator
• Display the motes on a map
  • Mote configuration
  • Links between the motes and their corresponding qualities
• Plot the different data
  • Example: using ploty
  • Others: Grafana or Kibana
    • Those two do not work with MongoDB