A smart solution to curb the emission of greenhouse gases in IT industries

Software And IT companies have acquired large real state for their office and data centre needs.

But the per sqft consumption rate of these areas is very low. And a lot of free space is available which can be utilised productively. And by definition free space is all the space that is not directly contributing to employees productivity or companies revenue.

This solution presents an idea to leverage these free space for Vertical Farming

We wish to convert the free spaces inside office buildings to vertical farms.

Vertical Farming is an indoor farming technique in which we cultivate crops in controlled environments. It optimises the use of land, water and manpower by leveraging technology. States of art IoT systems are deployed in these farms to collect and analyse data and lots of manual interventions are automated with the help of robotics and automation.

The Air-Conditioned Offices of Tech Companies suits these need. They can be controlled to suit the temprature, humidity needs of crops.

And the employee can volunteer some of their free time as a farmer. As we will automate most of the operation very minimal human effort is needed.

The more plants we grow the better we consume greenhouse gases

This application was generated using JHipster 6.8.0, you can find documentation and help at https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v6.8.0.

Before you can build this project, you must install and configure the following dependencies on your machine:

1. Node.js: We use Node to run a development web server and build the project. Depending on your system, you can install Node either from source or as a pre-packaged bundle.

After installing Node, you should be able to run the following command to install development tools. You will only need to run this command when dependencies change in package.json.

npm install

We use npm scripts and Webpack as our build system.

Run the following commands in two separate terminals to create a blissful development experience where your browser auto-refreshes when files change on your hard drive.

./mvnw
npm start

Npm is also used to manage CSS and JavaScript dependencies used in this application. You can upgrade dependencies by specifying a newer version in package.json. You can also run npm update and npm install to manage dependencies. Add the help flag on any command to see how you can use it. For example, npm help update.

The npm run command will list all of the scripts available to run for this project.

JHipster ships with PWA (Progressive Web App) support, and it's turned off by default. One of the main components of a PWA is a service worker.

The service worker initialization code is commented out by default. To enable it, uncomment the following code in src/main/webapp/index.html:

<script>
  if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
    navigator.serviceWorker.register('./service-worker.js').then(function() {
      console.log('Service Worker Registered');
    });
  }
</script>

Note: Workbox powers JHipster's service worker. It dynamically generates the service-worker.js file.

For example, to add Leaflet library as a runtime dependency of your application, you would run following command:

npm install --save --save-exact leaflet

To benefit from TypeScript type definitions from DefinitelyTyped repository in development, you would run following command:

npm install --save-dev --save-exact @types/leaflet

Then you would import the JS and CSS files specified in library's installation instructions so that Webpack knows about them: Edit src/main/webapp/app/vendor.ts file:

import 'leaflet/dist/leaflet.js';

Edit src/main/webapp/content/scss/vendor.scss file:

@import '~leaflet/dist/leaflet.css';

Note: There are still a few other things remaining to do for Leaflet that we won't detail here.

For further instructions on how to develop with JHipster, have a look at Using JHipster in development.

You can also use Angular CLI to generate some custom client code.

For example, the following command:

ng generate component my-component

will generate few files:

create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.html
create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.ts
update src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts

To build the final jar and optimize the CodeForFuture application for production, run:

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify

This will concatenate and minify the client CSS and JavaScript files. It will also modify index.html so it references these new files. To ensure everything worked, run:

java -jar target/*.jar

Then navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

Refer to Using JHipster in production for more details.

To package your application as a war in order to deploy it to an application server, run:

./mvnw -Pprod,war clean verify

To launch your application's tests, run:

./mvnw verify

Unit tests are run by Jest and written with Jasmine. They're located in src/test/javascript/ and can be run with:

npm test

For more information, refer to the Running tests page.

Sonar is used to analyse code quality. You can start a local Sonar server (accessible on http://localhost:9001) with:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/sonar.yml up -d

You can run a Sonar analysis with using the sonar-scanner or by using the maven plugin.

Then, run a Sonar analysis:

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify sonar:sonar

If you need to re-run the Sonar phase, please be sure to specify at least the initialize phase since Sonar properties are loaded from the sonar-project.properties file.

./mvnw initialize sonar:sonar

or

For more information, refer to the Code quality page.

You can use Docker to improve your JHipster development experience. A number of docker-compose configuration are available in the src/main/docker folder to launch required third party services.

For example, to start a mariadb database in a docker container, run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/mariadb.yml up -d

To stop it and remove the container, run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/mariadb.yml down

You can also fully dockerize your application and all the services that it depends on. To achieve this, first build a docker image of your app by running:

./mvnw -Pprod verify jib:dockerBuild

Then run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/app.yml up -d

For more information refer to Using Docker and Docker-Compose, this page also contains information on the docker-compose sub-generator (jhipster docker-compose), which is able to generate docker configurations for one or several JHipster applications.

To configure CI for your project, run the ci-cd sub-generator (jhipster ci-cd), this will let you generate configuration files for a number of Continuous Integration systems. Consult the Setting up Continuous Integration page for more information.