The Smart Building Canopy

The canopy network consists of a number of SmartMesh IP networks deployed throughout your building, all connected to an MQTT broker.

Throughout the following labs you will:

attach sensors to your motes
deploy the motes in your building; they join the canopy network
create your own account on IBM Bluemix and start a Node-RED instance which runs continuously
build a web interface using Node-RED
interact with your mote(s) from your phone

Connecting to the Watson IoT instance.

Visualizing the Network Topology

Open https://makeamesh.eu-gb.mybluemix.net/, i.e. the web front-end of the "makeamesh" server running on IBM Bluemix
You will see a topology similar to the following:

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