How to add IoT Devices

InfoTiles is primarily designed to ingest data through connections such as API, IoT and SCADA. You can follow this step to stream your data from IoT Devices and discover insights.

Prerequisites

• Lists of your IoT devices' manufacturing name

Instructions

Step 1. Select My devices on the left sidebar menu

Step 2. Click Add new device

Step 3: Fill in the required information

• Basic information
  • Device ID: should exactly match with the ID on your devices
  • Display name: a friendly name to display on InfoTiles
  • Device type: select from the list

Note: Device Type determines to which index the new device will send data.

• Map to a geographical location

           Drag and drop location marker to map Device ID to geographical position (lat/long/address).

• Add description and metadata

             Note: Metadata should follow by the prefix observationType_

4. Click Finish to save the new device.

Outcome

The new device is now displayed under My devices.

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