Withthegrid feature update September 2020

Withthegrid feature update September 2020

asset monitoring application

We have released a new version of our asset monitoring application. In addition to the existing asset monitoring environment, it now includes a connectivity environment. In it, IoT devices can be provisioned and assigned to different monitoring environments. Particularly, the term devices is very broad. It can include a customers’ own IoT devices, 3rd party IoT devices, Withthegrid IoT devices, or connections which existing databases. 

In this way, the different roles of device partners and asset monitoring application specialists can converge. Also, the benefit of asset monitoring specialists is that they can leverage the same environment for multiple device solutions. For device partners, the hurdle of device integration (and scaling up beyond PoCs or pilots) is greatly reduced as well as having an environment to monitor device performance and allocate devices to different users.


IoT connectivity

So far, we have expanded the number of integrations to include the most common connectivity and data protocols. For example, it is now possible to connect devices through a CoAP connection including DTLS end-to-end encryption, HTTP webhooks, or client certificates.


Device configuration

In the device supplier environment, you can configure your device. You can also define event handlers in TypeScript that parse incoming payloads into measurement reports, return instructions to devices (including FOTA) and monitor device health. If that sounds scary, it isn’t. And, we’re here to help and we will already set it up when we connect your sample device.


Set commands

To show how the device supplier environment can connect to the asset environment we will show an example of configuring specific commands for which an end-user can set for a specific device.


Easy handover

You can generate device tokens to share with the end customer. That way, they can securely claim the devices in their end-user asset environment.


Embedded SDK

If you are still working on the embedded software, let us take secure provisioning and device management out of your hands by having your devices connect to our application directly. We can do it through CoAP over DTLS or MQTT over TLS. The devices can identify themselves with a X.509 client certificate. For this scenario, we have an SDK available that builds upon the open-source Mbed OS. Please contact us for more info.

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