Building Automation in the Browser: An Experience Report
summary
A browser-only UI built with BabylonJS and React visualizes real-time state and control panels for dozens of office IoT devices, backed by a microservice architecture integrating AWS, a calendar API and an Express-based calendar proxy. It describes bridging building buses like KNX and microcontrollers, discusses issues found with message brokers, device protocol mismatches, authentication and latency, and reports which integrations were reliable versus which needed redesign.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Building automation intro
- 6:16KNX and hardware
- 10:02UI challenges
- 14:28JavaScript for automation
- 18:28Everyday devices
- 23:23Service complexity
- 27:56Microcontrollers in automation
- 33:42Cloud for building management
- 37:50Office automation tools
- 42:29Final insights
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