Integrating physical devices

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  • Who is this for: developers
  • Level: intermediate
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If you want to integrate your device within dojot, it must be able to send messages to the platform. There are two ways to do that:

  • Use one of the available IoT agents: currently, there is support for MQTT-based devices. If your project is using (or allows changing to) this protocol, then it would suffice to check if the device is sending its data using a simple key/value JSON. If it isn’t, then you might want to use iotagent-mosca (check iotagent-mosca documentation to check out how to do that). If it is indeed sending key/value JSON messages, then it can send its messages to dojot’s broker and it will be recognized by the platform.
  • Create a new IoT agent to support the protocol used by the device: if your device is using another protocol that is not yet supported, then it might be a good idea to implement a new IoT agent. It’s not that hard, but there are a few details that must be taken into account. To help developers to do such thing, there is the iotagent-nodejs library which deals with most internal mechanisms and messages - check its documentation to know more.