node accelerometer javascript

A proof of concept to demostrate any measure captured from a accelerometer attached to a raspberry pi 3 and transport this information throw mqtt protocol to a hub server thats centralize this information using a mqtt message broker like mosca and message router like node-red to parse and manage. In this case we will use a node-red flow on the raspberry 3 and not python service to capture the accelerometer measures.

The Node-RED flow Designer in raspberry pi:

picapp - apple macbook air

The Node-RED flow Designer in server side:

picapp - apple macbook air 2

The Raspberry pi 3 and accelerometer connected

node-red-accelerometer

Architecture

architecture

Hardware:

Raspberry pi 3: The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
MPU6050: The MPU-6050™ parts are the world’s first MotionTracking devices designed for the low power, low cost, and high-performance requirements of smartphones, tablets and wearable sensors.

Infraestructure Techonologies on server

Raspbian: Last raspbian for raspberry pi. Raspbian is the Foundation’s official supported operating system.
NodeJS: Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8. Includes API documentation, change-log, examples and announcements.
mosca: MQTT broker as a module http://mosca.io.
Node-Red: A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things.

Infraestructure Techonologies on device

node-red-contrib-gpio: A set of node-red nodes for connecting to johnny-five IO Plugins.
raspi-io: An IO plugin for Johnny-Five that provides support for the Raspberry Pi.

Frontend Techonologies on server

node-red-contrib-graphs: A Node-RED graphing package.

Installation:

Install GPIO Node-red packages on raspberry-pi 3 device:

Stop node-red if is still running
```
node-red-stop
```
Start a root user from pi user:
```
sudo su -
```
Modifiy the start user of the node-red service and set root
```
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/nodered.service 
```
Start node-red, this will create a .node-red appplication directory to configure the new node red instance from root account
```
node-red-start
node-red-stop
```
Install in this last directory the new node packages to access the raspberry pi GPIO from nodejs
```
cd .node-red
npm install node-red-contrib-gpio
npm install raspi-io
```
Exit the root account and restart node-red. Now the node-red instance start from root account, so the application directory of the node-red will be /roo/.node-red where we had installed all GPIO packages. This new nodes will used in our future flows to manage this pins of the raspberry pi.
```
exit
node-red-start
```
Access Node-Red raspberry pi Web designer
```
http://192.168.1.45:1880
```

Copy and import this flow from node-red import clipboard to crete the raspberry pi flow

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Install mosca mqtt message broker on the server side:

  npm install mosca bunyan -g
  mosca -v | bunyan

Execute npm to install node-red message router and the UI modules on the server, the package.json has all dependencies:

  npm install

Start node-red

  node node_modules/node-red/red.js

Access Node-Red server Web designer

  http://localhost:1880/

Copy and import this flow from node-red import clipboard to crete the raspberry pi flow

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Licenses

The source code is released under Apache 2.0.

masalinas / node-accelerometer-js

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