This guide will provide detailed instructions on how to install an IPFS(InterPlanetary File System) node on a low cost VPS. A basic Nginx server is installed as a reverse proxy to allow public access to the IPFS gateway. The gateway…
This guide provides installation instructions to install an InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) node on a Raspberry Pi. IPFS is a distributed peer-to-peer system for storing and accessing data files. The data is addressed based on a cryptographic hash of its…
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol is widely used for IoT devices. MQTT is based on a message broker with clients that subscribe and publish to topics. Clients never communicate directly with each other.MQTT is a very lightweight protocol which…
The Solar Desktop Wallet makes your cryptographic keys available for message signing. Signing a message is useful in a situation where you need to prove you are in control of a specific address or to prove the authenticity of some…
In this article I will describe a basic framework for how blockchain and distributed storage can be used to implement secure Over the Air firmware update process for IoT devices. A simple implementation for this process is described using the…
This is a guide for installation and basic setup of RabbitMQ with MQTT broker plugin on a VPS running Ubuntu Server 21.10. RabbitMQ is an open source message broker supporting several protocols including AMQP, STOMP, and MQTT.MQTT protocol is a…
The Socket Event Forwarder plugin is designed to be installed on a Solar Relay blockchain node. It forwards real-time blockchain events through Socket.io V3 protocol to a custom application. This guide will show how to install and configure the plugin.…
This guide will provide detailed instructions on how to send Lorawan sensor data from Helium Network to a Raspberry Pi (or VPS) via MQTT. Node-Red is used to store the time series data to InfluxDB and then backed up on…
This tutorial will show how to setup a Node-Red development environment to prototype dAPPs running on the ARK Public Blockchain Network or an ARK Bridgechain. The ARK Typescript SDK will be used to interact with the blockchain however ARK also…
This guide will provide detailed instructions on how to install and use Node-Red to read blockchain data provided by the ARK Public REST API. A simple example application is provided that queries the delegate API endpoint and sends an alert…
