Communication patterns

• Telemetry - for processing data generated by devices in a highly scalable manner – handled as “pass through”

• Events - for guaranteed delivery of messages sent by devices to your application – handled with “store & forward”

Communication protocol adapters
A multitude of local area wired and wireless protocols support different device classes. 20+ protocol adapters are available out-of-the-box. Custom protocol support upon request.

• Bosch IoT Edge - support for predominant IoT protocols such as Z-Wave, ZigBee, KNX, UPnP, Bluetooth LE, DECT ULE, ONVIF, HomeConnect, Modbus, EEBus SHIP, EEBus SPINE, BACnet.

• Bosch IoT Hub - supports HTTP, AMQP, MQTT, CoAP, and LoRaWAN.

Edge functionalities

• Connectivity and device communication

  • Enable devices for AIoT by providing connectivity, management, applications, and updates.

  • Connect diverse edge assets, process and act on IoT data right on the device, and manage devices from the cloud.

• Advanced edge computing

  • Use edge services such as a history, statistics, a rules engine, and more – including the tools for building and deploying the right set of services for your device.

  • Deploy them via containers running directly on IoT devices for local execution.

Application integration

• Managed or ad-hoc connections for forwarding events: HTTP Webhooks, WebSocket, AMQP, MQTT, Apache Kafka

• Payload mapping - on the fly - in case your application expects the data in another format

• Enrichment and filtering of events - configurable per connection

Application layer protocols
Various application layer protocols for accessing your device data in a uniform manner, regardless of what protocol the device level understands.

• Managed or ad-hoc connections: HTTP, WebSocket, AMQP, MQTT

• Payload mapping - on the fly - in case your application expects the data in another format

• Enrichment and filtering of events - configurable per connection

• Custom integration can be supported, as long as you respect the Eclipse Ditto Protocol (open spec.)

Communication pattern: Command and control

• Remote operation execution (incl. response)

• Remote operation triggering

• Configuration update notification

Communication protocol adapters: 20+ protocol adapters

Edge functionalities: Advanced edge functionalities for any IoT device from small micro-controllers up to 5G edge nodes - via Bosch IoT Edge.

Manage the digital representation along with the life-cycle of your product
Support all types of activity in the life-cycle of your IoT asset:

• Create (aka provisioning)

• Read, update, search

• Delete (aka de-provisioning)

Device abstraction

• One unified interface for devices, regardless of the device type or connectivity protocol

• Support of models created with Eclipse Vorto.

Synchronize information received from devices and from applications

• Data from the physical device is forwarded to all authorized subscribers.

• Messages from authorized IoT business applications are routed to the devices.

Always available - the latest state of your device can be looked up even if the device is not online at the moment you request the data.

Search across the full set of devices / digital twins

• RQL – query syntax for filter - applicable as search criteria

• Result fields definition, sort criteria

• Indexed fields: attributes, features, properties etc.

Transport layer security (TLS) – everywhere

Device authentication

• Username and password based device authentication

• X.509 Certificate based device authentication

• Certificate management - including revocation and update of certificates

Integration with 3rd party services for device security

• Key management services and public key infrastructures

• Hardware security modules

Authorization management for applications

• Unified authorization by Suite OAuth tokens

• OAuth2 and OpenID Connect compatibility

Policy management

• Ensure that only authorized users and applications can read or write data
  (this can be defined very fine-grained).

• Ensure that only authorized users and applications can send messages,
  e.g. to interact with your digital twins or even with the physical devices they represent.

Multi-tenancy

• All tenants are completely separated from each other, by default.

• The communication from the devices to the business application and from the business application to the devices is isolated at tenant level.

• Optional: operations across tenant boundaries can be granted - but respective policies need to be managed by the tenants themselves.

Bosch IoT Suite Console - aka developer console

• Easy to start Web UI, with efficient help through service-overarching use cases

  • Access to all UI features, documentation & APIs

  • Guided tour, intro video and interactive product picture

  • Customizable menu favorites

  • Strong user guidance for efficient work

  • Advanced edit options for power users

• Native UI features

  • Provisioning wizard

  • Managing device credentials, their digital twins and policies

  • Sending messages and viewing live feature updates

Edge Services SDK - extend, customize, test and profile your Edge Services runtime configuration using Edge Services Eclipse-based tooling available for common development environments.

HTTP API documentation

• Interactive usage behaves like a prototype.

• The API docs work directly on the endpoints for your service subscription. Trying it out will create effective changes.

Open Source clients and libraries

• Eclipse Hono = open source base for Hub

  • Hono command line client https://www.eclipse.org/hono/downloads/

• Eclipse Ditto = open source base for Things

  • Ditto protocol - https://www.eclipse.org/ditto/protocol-overview.html

  • Ditto Java and JavaScript client - https://www.eclipse.org/ditto/client-sdk-java.html

  • Ditto Go client - https://github.com/eclipse/ditto-clients-golang

• Eclipse Vorto = open source base for device abstraction modeling
  

  • supports to describe, share, and integrate information models of physical devices.

Basic authentication - Support of simple device authentication mechanisms to easy your development, test, and pre-production stages.