Keeping eyes on your home: Open-source network monitoring center for mobile devices

As the Internet continues to grow; it becomes more and more obvious that the communication network and its nodes play an increasingly important role. The traditional network management tools just monitor basic activity of network devices, but there is a common need for more complex solution including a mobile interface providing users with a convenient remote monitoring. Since the Internet of Things concept relays on the smart home gateway as a key component interacting with all sensors and appliances deployed within a building the network monitoring is not interesting only for network operators or companies. Also common end users want to have their intelligent households under a continuous control and be informed about specific events. Considering that and aiming at the monitoring and management of network components, we proposed a solution which is running on Raspberry Pi device with the support of openHAB platform and is able to monitor system resources and network activity of different network nodes. As key communication protocols we are utilizing SNMP and HTTP. Our developed system provides end-users with a very comfortable interface running on mobile devices or within any web browser. Proposed solution is completely open-source and can be easily ported to any other industry platform or extended by any additional feature or 3rd party application.