Geo Sensors Gateway

Receive and redistribute data from vehicle geolocation sensors.

Prototyping project to receive data from remote Ercogener Genloc sensors.

Try to receive data from TCP:

• not message-based, but we can presume that one connection = one message;
• how to secure the channel and protect from fake-data?
• very light still reliable.

Try to receive data from SMTP:

• certainly can put a password;
• clearly message-based;
• still light;
• maybe difficult if we got a lot of sensors on the gateway.

Do a server prototype on Erlang, so we really begin to construct reliable pieces of network and messaging software.

An OTP application

Installation

Install Erlang

Erlang Solutions provides a great Erlang builds for many platforms.

Refer to their download page: https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang/

To control the build process, you can also use kerl.

Example for Debian

Recommended method: install from repository.

wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb

Then install the complete distribution:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install esl-erlang

Install Rebar3

See official installation instructions.

The easiest is to download the latest binary build of Rebar3, place in a directory and add it to your path.

# These instructions are only provided as example: please refer to official instructions.
# This is a system-wide install.
sudo wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebar3/rebar3 -O /usr/bin/rebar3
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rebar3

Use it

Create a configuration file

You can use your configuration file from a sample to get started rapidly.

cp ./priv/conf/configuration.sample.json ./priv/conf/configuration.json

Build

$ make compile

Test

$ make test

Only compatible with Erlang OTP 20+.

% TODO Use error_logger:info_msg(“”) for logging –> Use a logging facility and be able to configure it to stdout or file, with a defined verbosity. (let message dump in stdout only in debug)

TODO Put examples in /doc/examples cf http://erlang.org/doc/design_principles/applications.html

TODO Add unit test for:

• Auth
  • Username does not match
  • Plain, Login, cram-md5
• FROM filtering
• Json user loading
  • Missing password, email
• Mail parsing
  • Invalid mail
  • Sensor not managed
  • Valid mail for Ercogener GenLoc TODO Forwarder examples:
• dumping (raw and parsed);
• to a list of mails;
• to a Google Sheet;
• to https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#datasets
• POST to custom API endpoint
• Maybe think of another way to archive systematically any file.
  • —> To AWS s3?
  • Create sample forwarders for that.
  • So we can recover any data when we need.
• Gateway reporting: add a statistics service
  • Report to Slack or mails the number of payloads forwarder in a day, week, etc.
  • Manage that in the application level? (Geo-service storage API?)