Project: Inwerken Tracker

Our project was to create a web application that can monitor the location of trackers in relation to location beacons. The data from the trackers are sent to the program Eclipse Hono, which lets us create digital twins of the trackers using Eclipse Ditto. This subsequently connects to a database that is pulled from and displayed in the online web application. 

The team consists of Tyler Ferron (myself), Jonah Hendrickson, Jordan Milbrath, and Steven Posterick. Our client was Inwerken and they wanted us to create a way to monitor the status of assets from a web application. Our project was to create a web application that can monitor the status and location of various IOT devices. Our project simply tracked the location of the assets in relation to a beacon, however in the future devices to track statuses like temperature can be added. In order to implement this, we first connected the Hardware devices to a LoRaWAN server called theThingsNetwork which broadcasts the packets from the hardware, which are then received by a service called Ditto. Ditto creates what are called Digital Twins, which are virtual models of the devices. From this we call the Ditto API from our web application, then do post-processing on the data received to display the tracker location in a map.