Installation

The Multi-purpose Binding and Provisioning Platform (MBP) is an IoT platform developed for easy binding, provisioning, and management of IoT environments. Furthermore, the MBP enables the simple realization of IoT applications, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, by allowing users to create rules for the IoT environment, in a straightforward and event-condition-action fashion. The efficient and timely data processing of IoT environments are assured through underlying complex event processing technologies. An Android-based smartphone application that connects to the MBP is provided as the GitHub project MBP2Go.

How to install and use the MBP is explained in the following:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac OS
• Docker

After-installation Tips

Please take a look on the following tips for running the MBP.

Tip: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Make sure that Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is allowed for all origins. To do that, add the following filter to Tomcat's 'web.xml':

<filter>
  <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class>
  <async-supported>true</async-supported>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Tip: Improving startup time

After a reboot of the hosting system, in order to decrease the restart time that Tomcat takes to make the MBP application available again, it is helpful to adjust the 'java.security' file of the JRE as suggested in this post. Otherwise it may take up to 30 minutes until the MBP can be accessed again. If you are using Linux, the installation script 'install.sh' takes care of this automatically.