Creating a new open source IoT platform, server side Python script, part 2
Allan After taking a little break to resolve some SSL certificate issues we turn our attention back to the current issue at hand, the server side Python script. As seen in…
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Easily creating self signed SSL X509 certificates
While working on an IoT project involving an MQTT server it came to be that I would be generating my own SSL certificates for the MQTT broker (mosquitto). There are…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, server side Python script
Coming back to the IoT platform after a little break. This time trying to work a little more on the server side and actually put together some working code and…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, the MQTT server/broker
So far we have come up with the architecture and the database structure for the new IoT platform. Next we should address the MQTT communications portion. The MQTT protocol is…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, creating the database, part 2
Next we will need to create the database structure that represents the hardware. This will include the hub, gateway, node, and sensors. As devices (gateways, nodes, sensors) are added (or…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, creating the database, part 1
In the previous posts we talked about how to assign ids and organize the data, but ultimately we will need to store this information somewhere and a relational database (such…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, assigning ids to data
In the course of developing an IoT platform the packet data structure needs to be decided. This is the data structure that is proposed to be used to send data…
Creating a new open source IoT platform
As of recently there have been a lot of new IoT products and services emerging ranging from Microsoft’s Azure, to Amazon’s AWS, to various home appliances in the home. Ever…