A Short Introduction to
I1820 IoT Platform
Parham Alvani
What is an IoT platform?
- An IoT platform is the middleware between the connected devices & application
- It is a multi-layer software which enables provisioning and management of connected devices
Where does I1820 come from?
I1820 is named after one of my friends who is not among us right now
Components
- PM
- DM
- Link (Uplink/Downlink)
- ElRunner
- Backend (API-Gateway)
- Frontend
Link; Uplink + Downlink
- Recieves data from HTTP or MQTT
- Decodes data based on JSON, CBOR or uses custom decoder
- Stores data into Database
Link; Uplink + Downlink
- Downlink?!
- Only works with MQTT
PM; The Project Manager
- Builds project and its docker
- Tunnels requests to project docker
ElRunner; Who runs in dockers
ElRunner; Who runs in dockers
- Runs scenario
- Decodes if needed
- Stores decoder and scenario
- Supports multiple interface for thing communications:
- HTTP
- MQTT
- LoRaWAN Integration through TTN
- LoRaWAN Integration through loraserver.io
- Supports Application Integration by OpenAPI
- Microservice Architecture
- Users can define scenario to react based on events
- Users can define codecs to parse their data
Platform as a Service
- Prepaid Model
- You don't pay for your sensors and actuators
- You don't pay for your projects
- APIs are here for your applications
- Only pay for API calls over 1000
Joint IoT Ecosystem
- Delegates their specific application to us
IoT Application Center
- Connects developers to end-users
- Applications are on top of the Platform
- End-Users can use these applications to gain added-values
