VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide Table of Contents Introduction ..............................1 Directing Data from a VIA Mobile360 FSS Device to AWS IoT Core ............1 VIA Mobile360 FSS Device ........................1 Connecting to AWS IoT Core .......................... 2 Introduction ............................
Acquire the Device Shadow URL displayed in step 9 of Section 2.3. 1.2 VIA Mobile360 FSS Device The datasheet and installation guide of the VIA Mobile360 FSS device could be found on the VIA Mobile 360 forklift Safety System product page. https://www.viatech.com/en/products/systems/mobile360/mobile360-forklift-safety-system/ •...
VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide 2. Connecting to AWS IoT Core 2.1 Introduction This section provides instructions on how to establish a connection between VIA Mobile360 Forklift Safety System(FSS) devices and Amazon IoT Core web services, including how to add and manage the VIA Mobile360 FSS device as an IoT Core device on Amazon Web Services, setup the device, and configure the VIA IoT application.
Pay special attention to the Notes. The followings are the step-by-step figures to demonstrate how to create an AWS IoT Policy, how to create a thing object and acquire the AWS IoT certificate files and Shadow URL for the VIA Mobile360 FSS device. Step 1 Click on ‘Secure/Policies’...
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VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide After clicking on the ‘Create’ button, the new policy's name will be listed in the right panel. Step 3 To create a new ‘IoT Thing’ resource with the new policy and to create certification files for this resource, click...
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VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide Next, select ‘Create a single thing’ and click on "Next". Step 4 Under 'Thing properties' in the right panel, enter the 'Thing Name'. Under 'Device Shadow', select 'Unnamed shadow (classic)' and click on the 'Next' button to continue.
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VIA Mobile360 FSS device. Step 6 Click on the new policy's name and click on the 'Create Thing' button to attach policies to the device certificate for your VIA Mobile360 FSS device and to complete creating a new ‘IoT Thing’.
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VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide Step 7 Download the device certificate (CertFile), the private key file (PvkFile) and the 2048 bit Amazon Root CA 1 certificate (CAFile) to a local folder and click on 'Done' to complete the certificate creation process for your VIA...
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Note: The MQTT topic prefix is for binding your VIA Mobile360 FSS device with AWS IoT Core Web services. The VIA Mobile360 FSS device will use the MQTT topic prefix of Device Shadows to interact with AWS IoT Core Web services.
2.4 Setup the VIA Mobile360 FSS device Follow the installation guide described in Section 1.2. The development kit of VIA Mobile360 FSS device is plug- and-play compatible on any Windows, Linux system via a USB to Micro USB cable and the terminal program...
The VIA Mobile360 FSS EVK includes an “IoTSDKSample” application to help establish a connection between the physical sensors/actuators on the VIA Mobile360 FSS device and the AWS IoT Core web service. This section guides developers on how to enable and run the “IoTSDKSample” application.
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VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide Step 3 Run the "IoTSDKSample" application as shown below. $ IoTSDKSample Step 4 If no error log is shown, verify the "IoTSDKSample" application by using the AWS IoT Core web service console.
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VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide To publish to interaction topic "$aws/things/thingName/shadow/update", click on the 'Publish to a topic' tab in the right panel, enter the topic name and click on the 'Publish' button. The last updated message will be shown in the AWS IoT MQTT test client.
VIA Mobile360 FSS AWS IoT Core Quick Start Guide 2.6 Debugging Open a console (e.g. Putty) and configure as Section 2.4. And the boot up messages will be presented with a command line interface as well as debug output. You could use busybox commands in /bin to setup and debug the VIA Mobile360 FSS device.
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