WIMP Backend

What is the WIMP system ?

WIMP is an IoT system that allows the students to get their teachers availability in real time.

The goal of this project is also to offer a functional IoT system to the researchers of the lab for the experiments.

What is the WIMP Backend ?

The backend part allows teachers to manage and define their states and to build their own logic in a Node-RED flow in order to compute their current state.

The principle of the backend part of the system is as follows:

A Node-RED server is used to process the information received from the different devices. This server is embedded in a Express.js server which have 3 main features:

• Serve as a firewall for the access to Node-RED.
• Expose a REST API which can be accessed through the frontend part of the system.
• Host the web pages accessible by the teachers.

In terms of software design, the backend part is separated in 2 sub parts :

• The front-backend which manages the Teacher interface via web pages. In this case, the backend corresponds to a classic web server
• The back-backend which contains the Node-Red part and the API accesible through the bakcend or the front of the system

The two parts of the backend are linked thanks to the Express.js server.

Learn more about the Backend

To learn more about this part of the system, we invite you to consult its documentation.