Is this a web application?

Question

Assume that i have an arduino with some sensor attached to it and i want to make a gui application that will show the readings from that sensor but i am sending the data in a wireless medium so that i can send data using a wifi .
so the application i want to make this happen will be a as known web application or simple a simple application.

Answer 1

Sometimes the borders between the kinds of applications can be a little bit fluent. I would say, it is a web application, if you provide the output via web for a not too uncommon tool for web usage. This could e.g. include socket communication or the more common web browser. If you now implement a new GUI for that and this tool primarily is used to display days provided by *net (I personally don't care if ether, web, etc.), I would specify this as a web application. Probably you have to restrict this, if your tool does only work within local / ether*nets and it's not able to work via www (which I suppose would be the more common definition).

Answer 2

Sandra Meyer I will be using a XBEE radio to send the signal feom the arduino and receive on my laptop

Answer 3

In fact this matters less than the question, if your app is primarily designed to receive information via any (and depending on the definition) which network. You could probably use it - depending on the implementation - use it like any other app, what's very web-application-likely. Probably it's not designed that flexible and mobile-friendly, but easily portable for that purpose, so it could be a core of a web application. It strongly depends on design, implementation and purpose. More than a specific technology.