Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Gillman, David

Area of Concentration

Computer Science

Abstract

I developed Victor to help me grow vegetables by monitoring my garden. Victor is a framework composed of four separate services: Container-gardening, Gardenerslog, Gardeners-shed, and Victor. Together these four elements gather measurements about my garden’s environment, store the data in a cloud hosted database, and display the measurements graphically on a web application. In this thesis I first detail the components, both hardware and software, used throughout my project and how they fit into the overall design and architecture of the framework. I then discuss how Victor could be abstracted from the use-case of hydroponic gardens entirely and used in a wide variety of distributed data acquisition applications. Though I do not believe that Victor solves the issues of large scale Internet of Things deployments completely, I argue that, for systems that use a microcomputer as the central operator of IoT deployments, Victor mitigates the security and extensibility issues present in devices today.

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