Kickstart Specifications

Kickstart for Ioto is a sample application that demonstrates cloud-based and direct local management of a mythical router device.

It includes the following components:

• UI/UX skin for the Ioto Cloud Device Manager
• Ioto device agent embdded web server
• VueJS client-side Javascript framework
• Documentation
• Samples
• Source code

UI Components

• User management
• User login
• Property edit
• Alert notification
• Event log
• Dashboard
• Dynamic tables and graphs
• Paged Data Tables
• Navigation
• Search
• Help
• Granular access control per page

Security

• Best practices security configuration
• Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL)
• Secure user login
• Password storage with Blowfish hashing and salting
• Granular access control per-page or per URI
• Sandboxed resource limits
• Defensive counter-measures for DOS attacks
• Access and access violation logging
• Content Security Policy to minimize cross-site scripting
• CrossOrigin sharing support
• Hidden frame hijack prevention
• Hardened against Crime, Breach, Beast and Lucky 13 exploits
• Executes with minimal privilege in Chroot jail
• Safe portable runtime to protect against memory leaks and buffer overflows

Performance

• Highly responsive UI with sub-second page transitions.
• Excellent request throughput and scaling.
• Small memory footprint even under heavy load (~1.5MB including TLS, database and entire application).
• HTML, Javascript and stylesheets minified, compiled and compressed into a single file.
• Data interchange with server via optimized JSON requests and responses.

Pre-integrated Components

• VueJS client-side Javascript library.
• Vuetify Material Design look and feel.
• Themeable SASS style sheets.

Developer Support

• HTTP server and client libraries.
• Extensive C, Javascript APIs.
• Extensive debug trace logging.
• Select and customize CSS themes.

Documentation

• Full C API Documentation.
• Tutorials.

Platform Support

• Linux
• MAC OSX
• FreeBSD
• FreeRTOS (pending)

Embedding Support

• Supports ARM, MIPS, X86/X86_64, PPC, SH, Sparc processors.
• Full cross-compilation support. Use Windows, Linux or Mac as build system.
• Fine-grained control for conditional build and compilation.
• Build statically or shared.

Standards

• HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 RFC 2616.
• WebSockets RFC 6455.