Varsha Thirumakil presented a Master's project on creating a smart home dashboard using web frameworks and IoT. The project integrated REST and DDP to build a reactive client-side dashboard for monitoring and controlling home sensors and appliances through a web browser or REST API. The backend used Express and Meteor with MongoDB storage, and authentication was implemented through JSON web tokens to securely access and update sensor data. A demonstration showed creating and deleting a user to update sensor measurements in real-time via the reactive client interface or REST calls.

1. Web Frameworks and IoT
Smart Home Dashboard
Master’s Project Presentation
by
Varsha Thirumakil

2. Broad Idea
• Experimenting Web Frameworks
using IoT Dashboard
• Background
o Static websites
o AJAX calls
o Reactivity – client dynamically updates the
data changes

3. Specific Goals
• Integrating REST and DDP
• Implementation is simple and easy
to understand
• Application is secured and
authenticated

4. Technologies
• Server – Express and Meteor
• Clients – Web Browser or REST
API
• Storage – MongoDB

5. Architecture

6. Demo
• Going to create a user and grab the
token generated
• Use the token to update sensors
and measurements
• Delete the User

7. Types
• Python requests
• Postman client
• Web Browser Reactivity
• JWT Demo

8. Conclusion
• Reactivity is achieved without a lot
of coding using Meteor Framework
and DDP
• JWT provided flexible security
implementation
• Easy to extend

9. Thank You 
Questions?