01. Hardware Components and Requirements

A Favendo intallation is made of:

Favendo asset tracking backend services: A set of servers that host the whole Favendo software stack.
Beacon trackers: Fixed receivers that are mounted either on the ceilling or on the wall, and that listen to the beacon signals before sending then to Favendo’s backend.
Beacons: Small mobile sender that is mounted on the object or person to track.

01. Favendo asset tracking backend services

Favendo requires, at a minimum, 3 VMs with the following configurations:

Number	Purpose	Requirement	Description
1 x	Main server	Quad Core (3.2 GHz) 64GB RAM 500 GB SSD Ubuntu 20.04	main spring-boot application (zircon API) 5 spring-boot microservices to manage side functionalities (ex: event management, adapters, …) AMQP Broker (RabbitMQ) Redis cache server 3 postgres dbs 2 Elasticsearch nodes 1 nginx load-balancer Web applications.
1 x	Asset tracking	Quad Core (3.2 GHz) 32 GB RAM 100GB SSD Ubuntu 20.04
1 x	Monitoring	Quad Core (3.2 GHz) 32 GB RAM 100GB SSD Ubuntu 20.04	Graylog instance Elasticsearch instance (used by graylog) mongo db instance (used by graylog) spring-boot-admin microservce.

The following beacon trackers are compatible with Favendo’s solution:

Every beacon using the iBeacon protocol should be compatible with Favendo’s solution.

Ask the Favendo Team if you want to know which beacons have been tested and approved by Favendo.