Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT

Creating the dashboard

We create our dashboard using the Node-RED program. Node-RED is a visual programming tool written in JavaScript. To install Node-RED for your operating system of choice, go to https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/ and click on the link associated with where you want to install Node-RED.

Let's begin:

1. Before we can use Node-RED to create our dashboard, we need to install the dashboard components. Using the Node-RED Terminal, type in the following command to install the Node-RED dashboard components. You may need to restart Node-RED to see the change:

npm install node-red-dashboard

2. For our Node-RED program, we will need three components. We will start by dragging the mqtt component in the component under the network ...