IBM Bluemix Cloud Computing Solution for Smart Appliances

This report outlines the development and deployment of a smart application using IBM Bluemix for AB pty Ltd, a product delivery company facing logistical challenges. The project aims to address the company's declining delivery performance by creating a vehicle tracking system. The report details the steps involved in using IBM Bluemix, including account setup, cloud foundry application creation, database integration, code configuration, and deployment. It also discusses the use of Geospatial analytics to monitor vehicle locations and potential difficulties encountered during the application development process. The implemented solution seeks to enhance the company's delivery services by providing real-time tracking and status updates.

CLOUD COMPUTING FOR SMART APPLIANCES

Table of Contents
1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
2 IBM Blue mix...........................................................................................................................3
3 Business Case Scenario Analysis...........................................................................................14
Business Problems.....................................................................................................................14
Possible Solutions......................................................................................................................14
4 Smart Application configuration and Deployment................................................................14
5 Difficulties..............................................................................................................................24
6 Conclusion..............................................................................................................................24
References......................................................................................................................................24
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1 Introduction
This project main objective is to make the new smart application for AB pty Ltd Company.
This company is a product deliver company and it has three trucks to deliver the products. It also
has the set of delivers to covers the all the region. It starting stage of this company delivers the
products five times per a data but, the current state of this company only deliver the products
three times per a day. It does not provide the effective deliver services for customer and third
parties. So, the company general manager decided to hire a new business analyst to identify the
potential issues and its solution. To provide the solution by use the IBM blue mix tool to create
the smart applications for a company. These are will be discussed and analyzed in detail.
2 IBM Blue mix
The IBM blue mix tool is used to makes the effective web application for a company and it
provide the cloud based smart application. The creation of smart application use below steps to
create the applications (Antonopoulos and Gillam, 2017).
1. Create and Login the IBM account.
2. Use below URL to login the IBM account. To login in the IBM account by enter the
Login ID and password.
https://idaas.iam.ibm.com/idaas/mtfim/sps/authsvc?
PolicyId=urn:ibm:security:authentication:asf:basicldapuser
3. After, create the smart application by launch IBM cloud. View the left navigation
pane to launch the IBM cloud and it open the dash board.
4. Here, user chooses the cloud foundry application to create the cloud foundry
application from the IBM cloud service list. It is shown below.
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5. The above steps create the cloud foundry application without infrastructure. Then,
click the SKD for a node because it is used to produce the application and host name.
It is shown below.
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6. Then, application will be opened. After, user needs to create the data for smart
application by click the data analytics services on IBM cloud dash board from
service list. It is used to provide to view the third party database. It is shown below.
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7. In data analytics services window, choose the DB MYSQL to create the data base.
Once data was created successfully, then deploy and establish the data base. This
process done by click the connection from see the left navigation pane. This process
is shown in below.
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8. Once database establishment and deployment is successfully completed, after user
needs to edit and configuring the code. This process is shown below.
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9. To edit and deploy a code by click the IBM blue mix DevOps service. This process is
shown below.
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10. If configuration code is completed successfully and users needs to deploy the code
file by select the red button on the centre of the screen and it used to display the pop
up window to re - deploy the code or not. It is shown below (Meinhardt and
Reinheimer, 2016).
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11. The code deployment is completed successfully, the click the OK button and this
process is used to display the GIT repository window. This window is used to allow
users to edit the repository file. Then, commit the file by click the commit button. It is
shown below.
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12. Here, IBM blue mix display the all the changed file details.
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