Device and connectivity
The version 1 of the device APIs (/api/v1/deviceMgt) comes up with a brand new model of devices in Live Objects.
We have worked on providing unified representations whatever the technology that is used to connect the device to Live Objects using IP connectivity (MQTT, HTTP), LoRa® or SMS, while maintaining the access to each specific technology.
Principles
A device is a generic term that can designate an equipment (sensor, gateway) or an entity observed by equipments (ex: a building, a car).
Device description
A device description is a set of JSON documents that store a device identity information, a device state information, a metadata (definition, activity, alias) a device connectivity information for each device that you will connect to Live objects.
Each device description has 2 sections to describe the device representation :
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Device identity.
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Device interface representation.