Posted by CptDondo on 05/02/07 20:27

Mike P2 wrote:
> On May 2, 12:07 pm, CptDondo <y...@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:
>> I've been asked about the feasibility of a web portal for some
>> controllers we are developing.
>>
>> Basically, the portal would offer accounts to subscribers and allow them
>> to view and control their equipment.
>>
>> The view is primarily a spreadsheet with clickable links for each
>> controller. The link would bring up a detailed view.
>>
>> I would imagine the backend would be SQL based, with a separate data
>> collection engine and display engine.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a GPL (or similar FOSS) licensed project that can do
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Yan
>
> Controllers? Equipment?
>

Yup.... Basically, we have some "stuff" out there in the wild. Our
customers want to know what their "stuff" is doing. So we're building
web-enabled controllers for the "stuff".

Now, this "stuff" sits out there in some pretty remote places, and some
of our customers have lots of "stuff". They don't want to visit 600
individual web pages to see how all of their "stuff" is doing so they
want a single website to show them that.

We're looking for something that can a) poll the "stuff" on a regular
basis, and put the results into a database, and b) display the data in
the database on a website in some sort of logical manner, as in a
spreadsheet.

I would guess that we would need to write most of the data collection
backend, but the frontends should be around; something with sessions,
access control since we don't want customer A to mess with B's "stuff",
a decent UI, and so on.

Does that explain it a little better? (Sorry if it was too vague....)

--Yan

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