Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Node-RED

Node-RED is an open source independent edge device, based on Node.js. Follow these steps:

1. Assuming Node.js is already installed, we can install Node-RED from the command console with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/node-red/node-red.gitcd node-rednpm install

2. Then, we need to install Grunt and compile Node-RED as follows:

• • If you are using Windows, enter the following command:

npm install -g grunt-cligrunt build

• • If you are using Linux or macOS, enter the following command:

sudo npm install -g grunt-cligrunt build

3. In the same directory, we need to install the support for OPC UA, as follows:

npm install node-red-contrib-opcua

4. We are now ready to work with Node-RED. From the command console, ...