Lora-Tracking-IITR

Contains setup instructions for the project LoRaWAN-Enabled Travel Solutions for IIT Roorkee

The project is divided into 3 code repositories containing the Frotend, Backend and Mobile App.

Follow these steps on a server of your choice to run the setup:

1. Install nvm and use Node version 18.
2. Install pm2.
3. Install mongodb and run it on default port.
4. git clone git@github.com:meetcshah19/erick-frontend.git
5. git clone git@github.com:meetcshah19/erick-backend.git
6. Build the erick-frontend React project using npm install && npm run build.
7. Install dependencies for erick-backend using npm install.
8. Copy the contents of build directory from erick-frontend to erick-backend/public.
9. Go to erick-backend and run pm2 start.
10. Open port 4000 on your server and ensure it has a public IP.

This should get the admin dashboard and backend up and running on http://IP:4000/.

Now let us configure The Things Network settings using the following steps:

1. Sign up and Create a new application on The Things Network console.
2. Create a new end device. Select Brand : Heltec automation. Select device : HTCC-AB02(Class A OTAA). Select region : IN_865_867.
3. Set unique Join EUI.
4. Generate DevEUI and APP key and register end device.
5. Now go to Integrations/Webhooks and create a new one. Use base url : http://IP:4000/save_erick_data and check all events.
6. Create the webhook.
7. Go to Payload formatters and add an uplink payload formatter as given in payload_formatter.js.

This completes the TTN setup.

Lets upload code to the IoT device now using the followng steps:

1. Download Arduino IDE.
2. Follow setup instructions here to setup LoRaWAN parameters and the IoT board parameters.
3. Set DevEUI, AppEUI and AppKey.
4. Upload GPS_LoRa.ino to device to get an active tracker.

Now lets build the app.

1. Clone git clone git@github.com:meetcshah19/erick-app.git.
2. Run npm install.
3. Use npm run dev and the Expo Go app to test.
4. Follow Build Instructions to build the app.

This completes the whole setup for the LoRaWAN based tracking system.