Internship in LAAS

Last February, I was selected by the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS)  to become an intern who worked on the creation of a web application for the monitoring of the Uninterruptable Power Supply. LAAS is a French laboratory associated with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The main research focus of this laboratory is robotics, artificial intelligence, embedded system, and energy.

An Uninterruptable Power Supply or UPS is a device that converts a direct current known as DC like the current produced by a battery into an alternating current or AC which is like the current in our outlet.  It is used by the laboratory to protect its servers and other scientific devices. Part of my job was to analyze each UPS of the laboratory and look for monitoring card that fits those UPS. Since the laboratory wanted one user interface to monitor all their devices, they did not want to rely on a third party company to provide monitoring software for them. Therefore, I had to create a computer daemon to collect electric measurement from UPS and store them in a database. After those were shown in a user interface that I coded myself.

The backend architecture of my project as a whole looks like the following.

And the frontend which is what the user sees looks like the following

The detail of my project can be consulted in the following link but unfortunately, it is all written in French because of the requirement of the laboratory  here