Cockpit : The Red Hen Monitoring System

This project automates the task of sensing the health of the many Red Hen Lab remote capture stations, which are Raspberry Pi devices, and provides a responsive web dashboard that the management entity can use to easily perform her monitoring tasks. This has been achieved by implementing a set of scripts, whose execution in the capture stations is controlled over SSH and a comprehensive monitoring system using a centralized server (called Coop) built on the MERN stack - MongoDB, Express, React, Node.JS.

The server consists of a Telemetry component which can communicate with the capture stations through SSH, a Control component which performs tasks like addition and updation of station metadata in the mongo database as well as report generation and backup upon user command and a frontend that allows visualization through a centralized dashboard that can be accessed through a desktop or mobile device with appropriate security credentials.