LiveGate

LiveGate is an IoT platform developed by Faculty of Electrical Engineering researchers, which enables its users to easily send data from various sensors to the cloud. The data are stored in a database and graphically presented to users, with the option to be exported in different formats (JSON, CSV/XLS). The solution has been implemented using open source tools: Linux, LAMP stack, PHP programming language, and Laravel framework. The data integration has been tested using sensor nodes based on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Libelium Plug and Sense, and PC. The solution is open for further development with respect to additional IoT protocols, data types, and interfacing to analytics tools.

The work is focused on integrating Octave, R and Python programming languages with the LiveGate platform. Users now can choose from a variety of predefined analytic tools, such as data plotting, histogram plotting, calculating data parameters such as mean, maximum, minimum, median value or standard deviation, calculating data correlation from a single node and performing data clusterization; but they can also upload custom script.

It is this functionality that makes LiveGate advanced in comparison with other available IoT platforms. Additionally, it is planned to make the platform exportable, so it can serve as a standalone project which can be installed on other servers. In this way, a potential user would not have to necessarily rely on the BIO-ICT data centre.

 At the moment, LiveGate  is used actively at BIO-ICT soil and water monitoring, and it will be upgraded for larger commercial use.