Configuring Fields: Devices
Field Name | Description |
Model | The specific model on which the device creation is based. |
Product | Represents the device product for the device you are adding. |
Name | A label to identify your device. |
Description | A brief description of the device. |
Device Type | Choose the type of device—gateway, peripheral, or smart sensor. |
Device Connectivity | The protocol used for device communication with the Zoho IOT application. |
Device Application |
Edge Agent: System software developed and provided by Zoho IOT. Manufacture Defined: System software developed and provided by the device's manufacturer.
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Authentication Type | The method used for device communication authentication. |
Data Interval | The frequency at which the device sends data. |
Edge Key | A unique key to identify the instance at the device level incoming message/command payloads. |
DevEUI | A 64-bit unique identifier assigned by the manufacturer or owner of the device. |
LoRaWAN Datastream | The connector for the LoRa Network Server (LNS) in which the device is managed. |
Connected Asset | The asset added in the Zoho IOT application to which the sensor/device is attached to. |
Connected Gateway | The device added in the Zoho IOT application, which represents the gateway the peripheral device is connected to in the real world. |
Gateway type
- Model: "Home Gateway" - the device is based on the model called Home Gateway.
- Name: "My RPi" - Name used to identify the device in the application.
- Description: "A Raspberry Pi used as a gateway device in a home automation set up" - The description provides added information about the device.
- Type: "Gateway" - The raspberry pi device acts as a gateway that gathers information from various sensors and sends it to the Zoho IOT application.
- Device Connectivity: "MQTT" - The raspberry pi will communicate with the Zoho IOT application using the MQTT protocol.
- Device Application: "Custom Application," the system software that runs on the Raspberry Pi, is a custom application developed by a user.
- Authentication Type: "Security Token with TLS" - The authentication type used for device communication.
- Data interval: "5", The rasberry pi will send information to the Zoho IOT application every 5 minutes.
- Edge Key: "myrpi_livingroom", this edge key allows the device My RPi to use only the data under the payload with the id myrpi_living room.
Here is an example of the payload,
Smart Sensor type
- Model: "IAQ", the device instance is based on the model called IAQ.
- Name: "AM308 R1" - Tag identifying the device in the application.
- Description: "A sensor to measure the room climate in the dining room". - Additional information about the device.
- Type: "Smart Sensor", -The device collects and directly communicates data to the Zoho IOT application.
- Device Connectivity: "LoRaWAN via LoRaWAN Datastream" - Information regarding the LoRa device is communicated to the Zoho IOT application using a datastream.
- DevUI: "24Exxxxxxxx06122" - Sixteen digit ID provided with in the device information of the milesight device.
- LoRa Datastream: "TTN - Room Monitoring" - Datastream in the Zoho IOT application that connects to TheThingsNetwork LoRa Network Server.
- Data interval: "10" - data about the device will be fetched every 10 minutes by the Zoho IOT application.
Peripheral Sensor type
- Model: "Energy Meter" - the device is based on the model called Energy Meter.
- Name: "Energy Meter Living room" - Name used to identify the device.
- Description: "Energy Meter that measure the electricity values of the living room" - Information of what the energy meter does.
- Type: "Peripheral Sensor" - The energy meter needs to connect to a gateway device to send information to the Zoho IOT application.
- Device Connectivity: "Peripheral Communication via Gateway" - The peripheral can only communicate to the Gateway Device.
- Peripheral Protocol: "Modubus RTU" - the protocol with which the energy meter communicates with the Raspberry Pi (Gateway device of the energy meter).
- Connected Gateway: My RPi, the device representation of the Raspberry Pi gateway device in the Zoho IOT application.
- Data Interval: "5", Data about the he peripheral device is sent to the application every 5 minutes.
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