A data-driven extended-life platform for reusable consumer electronics

An proof of concept application designed to demonstrate an example of a dedicated platform to register electronic components. Solely done by the author and motivated by a research project for the Smart Solutions course at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences that the author took during his ERASMUS mobility to Enschede, Netherlands.

The main goal was to promote and assist in electronic component collection and reuse by creating a platform to register consumer electronics' parts and more easily find them in the case their needed by a repair job. This makes the job of storing and the repurpouse of old parts easier and, furthermore, supports the concept of a circular economy.

During research and development several local companies, electronics stores and repair shops were consulted, through several meetings, to gather important requirements first-hand from organizations that might benefit from the system. Most of them didn't have a dedicated electronic components stock system and the ones who did had one that didn't take full advantage of the component's information.

Functionalites

• Register Property - Register properties of models or parts (Height, Width, Power, ...)
• Register Model - Register a device model
• Register Part - Register a device part
• Search Parts - Search a part by input text and filtering by name, brand, model number, part number or specific properties
• Check or Update Part/Model Information - Check or Update a part's or model's details

Domain Model

Source Code Structure

• bootstrappers - Data bootstrapper for demonstration
• core - Core Project code. Divided by entities and subdivided by Controllers (application), Model classes (model) and Repositories (repo)
• doc - Some project documentation (Entity-Relationship Diagram, Domain Model)
• docker - Docker Compose configuration
• persistence.impl - Persistance implementations for the repositories. Only has the implementation for JPA (Java Peristence API)
• http - Simple API server that serves the registered information.
• www - Barebones front-end to demonstrate app functionality done with plain HTML/CSS and pure JavaScript