/CUSP-GX-6004-C

Advanced Urban Informatics module on IoT and Microservices

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Scripts and documentation for hosting IoT and Microservices class at NYU CUSP

The repo contains two directories, IoT and server.

As Phil Karlton said -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things

Anyways, the IoT directory contains:

  • Helper Scripts: for prepping, flashing and ad-hoc monitoring the Pi

    • create_config.py -- Prepping the Raspberry Pi (using raspberrypi-ua-netinst ) with dynamically generated ssh keys, IP addresses (more on this a little later).
    • flash_image.py Copying the required setup (netinst files from setup sub directory) and configuration files to the plugged-in micro sd-cards.
    • Monitoring scripts -- simple ssh and ping tests to make sure that when powered on, the Pi's are connected to the access point as passed into the (configuration file when prepping the Pi).

  • presentation: This directory contains scripts and documents that are created in the class.

    • cheat_sheets -- some markdown files with handy linux commands
    • codes -- different scripts and python modules for performing sensing and uploading data to the server.
    • plots -- some intermediate plots generated for the presentation

  • setup: Containing setup files for ua-netinst

    • raspberrypi-ua-netinst-v1.5.1 -- v1.5.1 of installer (support until Pi 2B)
    • raspberrypi-ua-netinst-v2.3.0 -- v2.3.0 of installer (support until Pi 3B+)

The server directory contains scripts and modules for serving the ssh and vpn keys to students for interacting with the Pis and a dashboard for visualizing the uploaded data.

More information can be found in IoT and server directories.