Device integrations have for decades been a problem for many business web apps. Input devices, printers, sensors and security gadgets would have their use case in many typical business apps. The "sandbox" by browsers has been worked around with several hacks ranging from browser plugins to native wrappers, but native apps have ruled when you need to connect to custom devices. Emerging new web standards may be changing the game forever.

This presentation will overview the possibilities (including workarounds and dirty hacks) to connect to various devices from your web apps. As a hands-on code example, we use Web Bluetooth API available in Chrome to collect ECG precise data from a wireless heart monitor belt. The row bytes are then sent over to the Java server for further analysis.