addicteduser / TempOfThingsRepo

A project for the Internet of Things class (CSC700M AY 15-16) that makes use of multiple sensors and an MQTT broker. This is implemented with Java (user interface), Python (serial communication with sensor; MQTT broker publisher and subscriber), and MySQL (database).

Temperature of Things

Synopsis

A project for the Internet of Things class (CSC700M AY 15-16) that makes use of multiple sensors and an MQTT broker. This is implemented with Java (user interface), Python (serial communication with sensor; MQTT broker publisher and subscriber), and MySQL (database). See IoT Project Specs.pdf for more info.

Pre-requirements

• Python v2.7
  • 3.x does not have support for MySQLdb yet
  • https://www.python.org/downloads/
• PySerial
  • for serial comminication with the Arduino
  • import serial
  • https://pyserial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pyserial.html
• Eclipse Paho MQTT Python client library
  • for MQTT functions
  • import paho.mqtt.client
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paho-mqtt/1.1
• MySQLdb
  • Python interface to MySQL
  • import mysqldb
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/1.2.5
• Java
  • https://java.com/en/download/
• Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) (included in /lib/)
  • http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j
• ini4j (included in /lib/)
  • Java API for handling configuration files in Windows .ini format
  • http://ini4j.sourceforge.net/index.html
• MyySQL server
  • for database
  • https://www.mysql.com/downloads/
• Mosquitto
  • to enable the machine with MQTT function
  • http://mosquitto.org/download/

How to Use

• Set up arduino/sensors (see /resources/arduino/)
• Start the mysql server
• Set up the database (see /resources/sqlscripts/)
• Start the mqtt broker
• Change the necessary details in the config.ini (see /resources/)
• Run the temp_main.py to invoke the Publisher and Subscriber (see /resources/pyscripts/)
  • Choose which Publisher you'd like to try: test_pub or temp_pub
• Run the Driver.java (see /src/)
  • Opens the user interface