The portal provides a user-friendly interface for managing your account, performing all provisioning and messaging operations and setting up secure APIs and or socket connections to/from your upstream applications as required.
The web portal provides a full featured device and data management capability to allow customers to perform all Provisioning and Messaging Operations from the portal including accessing device message queues, historical messages, sending messages to IoT devices, managing messages as well as provides an easy way to integrate customer upstream application to IoT devices on their account.
Account Creation and management can be performed from the TrillionThings (TT) Portal or from one of the approved Partner Portal.
- Create a free customer account from the TT Portal Sign UP page
- Once sign up is completed the account can be managed via the Portal or by way of secure provisioning APIs and credentials which are assigned during the account setup.
- If you would like the incoming device messages to be forwarded to an external server (your upstream application) then add one or more messaging endpoint profile to define your outbound endpoints. The messaging endpoint profile also defines the external sources that may trigger inbound messaging for onward transmission to your IoT devices. You can also skip this step and add it later when ready to integrate your upstream applications.
- Create one or more service templates to define the set of services and features you will like your IoT devices to use. A service template is effectively a re-usable “configuration set” that you will be able to assign to your IoT device(s).
- Add one or more devices using the device creation form on the Portal or using the CSV bulk upload tool on the Portal or using the Device Provisioning API. The device object field descriptions are available in the CSV template or here. Note that a device must be associated to a Service Template.
- Check the list of available service access points (SAP) on your account from the “Manage SAP” page. Each SAP is a service connector through which your IoT device can access the IoTGtw cloud service using the SAP IP address, Port, Transport type (TCP / UDP) to transmit either raw payload or SimplyTiny envoloped payload over RAW UDP/TCP socket and or over CoAP, MQTT-SN.
- Ensure your IoT device is configured to use your preferred SAPs in your preferred region or region combinations.
- Once your physical IoT devices are configured with the SAP to use, the devices can immediately start transmitting and receiving data. Your devices and associated configuration can be managed from the Portal. From the Portal you can view your devices uplink and downlink messages meta data and payload and send downlink messages to the device.
- Add additional messaging endpoint profiles if you need to integrate new upstream applications. Your upstream application instances can be integrated using the IoTGtw provisioning APIs, Messaging API as well as by TCP/UDP upstream application socket.