Creating comprehensive web and mobile dashboards
After uploading the code to the device, it’s time to set up a dashboard for web and mobile to visualize the data with different widgets. The following figure demonstrates the visualization of readings with different widgets:
Figure 5.11 – The Thing dashboard
We have four readings from the GPS module to visualize; here, I have used three widgets, Gauge, Value, and Map, but Map is used twice as it takes two values (i.e., latitude and longitude). The Gauge widget shows Speed Per Mile, while two Value widgets have been used to display Altitude Feet and Satellite Count. The Map widget has been used to display Location based on the latitude and longitude coordinates, which are stored in a cloud-based location variable. Currently, the Map widget is only capable of displaying the location of the asset device based on coordinates; if you have multiple assets to track, then you need to set up multiple...
