IoT

A guide to setting up a server to support an IoT project.

We create a linux server running a python/flask application that can:

• Accept data from one or more edge devices
• Store that data in a MySQL database
• Display the data that has been gathered

Three videos to set up our cloud server:

Create a user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix__9_ZerHU

Installing software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhwQ1dbtnY

Running python from nginx: https://youtu.be/0HNKAMwFV8M

Some software we will need - some runs on the server, some runs on the edge device: https://bitbucket.org/cs66/imu-iot-1/