Understanding Devices
Understanding Device Application
A device application refers to the software layer running on a physical gateway device that connects to the Zoho IoT application. When registering a gateway device in Zoho IoT, users must specify the type of device application running on it. This ...
Understanding Endpoint Devices
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Understanding Gateway Device and Peripheral Association
What is a Gateway Device? A Gateway Device serves as an intermediary between peripheral devices and the cloud application. It collects, processes, and transmits data from multiple connected devices to the cloud, enabling seamless communication and ...
MQTT Telemetry Cases
Zoho IoT supports device communication using the MQTT protocol. It provides dedicated MQTT topics for specific communication purposes to ensure structured and reliable data exchange between devices and the Zoho IoT application. The topic structure ...
HTTPS Telemetry Cases
Zoho IoT provides a dedicated endpoint for specific communication needs while using the HTTPS protocol for device connectivity. The typical structure for an endpoint in HTTPS configurations used in Zoho IoT is : https://<app_url>/v1/iot/<endpoint> To ...
Understanding Edge Keys
Edge Keys in Zoho IOT Applications ensure uniqueness to resources and their corresponding data. They help to distinguish between resources that might have similar or duplicate names in the application. This feature is important in environments where ...
Understanding Datastreams
A datastream in Zoho IoT is used to integrate third-party device/data management systems with a Zoho IoT application. Currently, Zoho IoT supports LoRaWAN-based datastream integrations. LoRa WAN Datastream LoRa datastreams are used to integrate LoRa ...
Authentication Types supported in Zoho IoT
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a device to ensure secure access to the Zoho IOT. Zoho IOT applications support three authentication modes for devices. Security Token without TLS This mode uses a security token for device ...
How to effectively use device products and device models?
Consider a large water treatment plant setup where a Strato Pi Max gateway is connected to five SITRANS Probe LU240 water level sensors, five SITRANS F M MAG 6000 flow meters, and five Honeywell Analytics Sensepoint XCD hazardous gas sensors. ...
Understanding Device Products
Prerequisite: Before proceeding, please make sure you're familiar with Device Model. Understanding device models is essential for adding devices in the Zoho IoT application. Device Product A device product in Zoho IoT contains metadata for ...
Understanding Device Models
A device model serves as a blueprint and can be configured with the following : Datapoint templates Command templates Overview dashboards templates Custom fields Alarm rule templates Message Handler and Formatters Model Settings Every device created ...
Understanding Devices
In Zoho IoT applications, a device represents a real world entity that can be a gateway, a smart device, a sensor, or even a virtual service/system application that needs to be managed and monitored. Devices in the application are the essential ...