14th Apr 2015
IoT experiments – IBM’s IoTF and Rapberry Pi
April 13, 2015
I did some experimental setup for playing with sensor data streaming to the cloud – Internet Of Things.
One that seems quite interesting is IBM’s IoT Foundation - A fully managed, cloud-hosted service that is designed to simplify and derive the value from your IoT devices.
https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/
IBM offers a 30 day trial and it offers Device registration, Device and application connective, Secure receiving of data, secure sending of commands to devices and Storage and access to historic data. The 30 day trial is for their IBM Bluemix cloud services.
It is possible to validate their backend with some simple experiments using their Quickstart - https://quickstart.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/#/
Here is what I tried with Raspberry Pi (B+) - https://developer.ibm.com/iot/recipes/raspberry-pi/
Step 1: Install the software
curl -LO https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-raspberrypi/releases/download/1.0.2/iot_1.0-1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i iot_1.0-1_armhf.deb
make sure the service is running – service iot status
to stop the service – sudo service iot stop
to uninstall the package – sudo dpkg -P iot
Step 2: To visualize the data
Find the MAC address of Raspberry Pi
service iot getdeviceid
This will return something like this:
pi@SensorTag ~ $ service iot getdeviceid
The device ID is b827eba5b0aa
For Real-time visualization of the data, visit http://quickstart.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/?deviceId=b827eba5b0aa
By going to the quickstart.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com you can see the data send from the raspberry pi. This works nice.
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The data is sent from raspberry pi using MQTT PROTOCOL.
More information is available at the above web site on how to register to IBM’s IoTF organization and register various devices. It states that once we follow this path, we can send commands to a registered device (reboot raspberry pi)
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