In reply to @nervecenter "making server or backend": In case anyone finds it
funny, in my industry, one of the sensor products on offer was configured by a
desktop Windows application...which was also the server. The sensor firmware was
hard-coded to communicate only with this Windows desktop application, and it is
the gatekeeper for this brand's sensor data. To suck that data into a sensible
database backend, we had to stack scripts around that application to watch for
sensor data files, dump them to JSON, then send them out to our own
infrastructure. It's infuriating that this is how things were done 20 years ago,
let alone 10, or 5.