This project is based on the Idea of physical likes. Using an internet button, students are able to "like" or "dislike" a lecture by pressing the corresponding button "like" or "dislike". The results are displayed in dashboard on a web UI. Additionally, using a second internet button students are also able to send information when they going to have a coffee, smoke a cigarette, went to have meal, or need to go the bathroom.
The internet button used in this project is the Photon button from Particle. It is an programmable internet button equiped with an WLAN module. Pressing on of four button sends an event which then can be processed.
The project is implemented on Bluemix, IBM's Cloud Platform. Bluemix provides a several services for IoT, web, and mobile application with a quick setup and an easy to use experience.
The overall service consist basically out of two components:
Watson IoT Service
The Watson IoT service connects the Photon Buttons to the IoT Cloud and is the communication interface between the HHZ-Photon Service and the the Photon Buttons.
HHZ-Photon Service
The HHZ-Photon is an service which processes the data sensed by the Photon Buttons and serves a (web) unser interface (UI) which subsequently dispays the processed data. Thereby, the frontend and the backend part are seperate components:
- HHZ-Photon-Server (implemented in Google Go)
- HHZ-Photon-WI (web interface - implemented in JavaScript/AngularJS)
Based on the Publish/Subscribe Pattern the Photon Buttons are sending their data to an topic in the IoT Cloud. The HHZ-Photon-Server subscribes to the corresponding topics and consumes all incoming json events. On each incomming message the server component sends the information via WebSockets to the the user interface. In the UI the information is displayed in block charts. The UI is served by a lightweight web-server.
The documentation to all components can be found on the GitHub Wiki page:
https://github.com/hhz-hackathon-2017/IotHackathon/wiki
Check the UI:
http://hhz-photon.eu-gb.mybluemix.net/#/dashboard
All code repositories for this project can be found in the following GitHub organisation: