Server software or services?

[Crucci]

I am working on a project for school to create a simple earthquake early warnings system. I have a bunch of sensors collecting raw data that I would like to send to a server to be processed.

 

I know nothing about servers, but if anyone knows of any good software or service that might fit the purpose I could look in to, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Crucci said:

sensors collecting raw data

How much data are we talking about?

What, normally, software processes said data?

[Crucci]

11 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

How much data are we talking about?

What, normally, software processes said data?

Each sensor (will have about 3) produces 1kb of text (small numbers) per second.

 

I to make a sever that will be able to detect change in the data (numbers) for each sensor and run some simple physics calculations. Currently the data is just saving to an SD card and I process it manually. But I have set up each sensor with cell connection and hope to make something process it automatically.

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Crucci said:

1kb of text (small numbers) per second.

Seems to me a 3rd gen (and up) Xeon should be able to crunch those kind of numbers with ease.

Once you get the program written, an AWS should be cheap enough, but if this is a long term project, (as in years) it'd be cheaper to build your own server to process the data locally.

[Crucci]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Seems to me a 3rd gen (and up) Xeon should be able to crunch those kind of numbers with ease.

Once you get the program written, an AWS should be cheap enough, but if this is a long term project, (as in years) it'd be cheaper to build your own server to process the data locally.

Great thanks for that! Yea only planning to have it running for a couple months until I get my grade

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Crucci said:

Great thanks for that! Yea only planning to have it running for a couple months until I get my grade

The only drawback for the AWS...is I *think* you have to be 18 to sign up for one. I'm over 18, so I've never paid attention to that, but you might want to look into that part closely (if you wanna stay aboveboard, and if your teacher cares about that thing)

[Crucci]

11 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

The only drawback for the AWS...is I *think* you have to be 18 to sign up for one. I'm over 18, so I've never paid attention to that, but you might want to look into that part closely (if you wanna stay aboveboard, and if your teacher cares about that thing)

Hmm, I just made an account and I couldn’t see anything about being over 18? Ill take a deeper dive into their terms later and see if I find anything.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, Crucci said:

Hmm, I just made an account and I couldn’t see anything about being over 18? Ill take a deeper dive into their terms later and see if I find anything.

You are probably required to enter CC details in order to quality for any trials. This was how Google Cloud services does things (joined for Maps API trial for school projects).

[Crucci]

2 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

You are probably required to enter CC details in order to quality for any trials. This was how Google Cloud services does things (joined for Maps API trial for school projects).

Yea, CC details were needed to make an account.

 

Thanks for your help Radium_Angel I really appreciate it.