iot-dashboard

Fully integrated architecture platform with a dashboard for Logistics Monitoring, Internet of Things.

• Written in Python.
• Flask application as back-end.
• PostgreSQL as SQL database.
• Database connection pooling.
• Simple dashboard in plain HTML/CSS.
• Communication protocol interface for IoT devices.
• Communication protocol for the Mictrack MT821/MT825 GPS tracker in UDP multithreaded mode.
• Geofences to save GPS tracker battery when it is not in zone.
• Geofence alerts.

Platform architecture

Dashboard layout

Database schema

Pre-requisites 📋

• Linux operating system.
• Python (version >= 3.8) installed.
• pip installed.
• PosgreSQL server installed, I recommend lastest stable version. You can follow this tutorial. I also recommend to set up the configuration file "pg_hba.conf" and set a IPv4 host entry to listen at "0.0.0.0" address and allow md5 authentication, there are many guides about "pg_hba.conf" out there.
• Port forwarding for the ports described here.
• pgAdmin 4 (Optional).

Installation 🔧

Once you have met all the requirements mentioned in the previous section, just follow these steps:

• Clone or download this repo via HTTPS/SSH in your file system.
• Navigate to the repository directory:

cd /path/to/your/directory/iot-dashboard

• Create a new virtual environment in the root folder of the repository and activate it:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

• Once the virtual environment is activated (you are inside it), install all required Python packages from requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Finally, run the application installation script (if asked, enter your user password):

./scripts/install.sh

Upgrade ⤵️

To upgrade all python packages simply run the upgrade script within the virtual environment:

./scripts/upgrade.sh

Usage 🚀

Start application

In order start the entire application just run the start script within the virtual environment (log files will be automatically created):

./scripts/start.sh

If you only wish to run the Flask instance separately:

flask run --host=0.0.0.0

Finally, if you only wish to run the Micktrack MT821/MT825 communication protocol separately:

python -m comm_protocol.mt82x

Shutdown application

./scripts/shutdown.sh

Restart application

./scripts/restart.sh

Application status

./scripts/status.sh

Be care the application could have been started without this scripts (e.g. starting manually from another folder), so the status and shutdown scripts could fail or show wrong results.