Concepts

Bosch IoT Device Management aims to support you as an IoT developer in building IoT solutions with scalable and secure ingestion of large volumes of device data.

We further address device manufacturers who need to manage large fleets of devices, and admins who need to remotely start campaigns to update their firmware and software over the air.

This chapter will help you with details on the following concepts.

Table of contents

• Bosch IoT Device Management - Building blocks

• Authentication and authorization

  • Auth for service subscription

  • Roles and permissions

  • Device to cloud communication

  • Sending data to a solution

• Unique identifier - common device ID patterns

• Device connectivity

  • Device data model

  • Device communication patterns

  • Protocol adapters

  • Gateway mode

  • Security

  • Multi-tenancy

• Digital twins

  • Things and features

  • Policies

  • Search

  • Connections

  • Acknowledgements

  • Conditional requests on things

  • Protocol

• Specification digital twin model mapping

• Device management concepts

  • Device Inventory

  • Mass Management

• Software update

  • SoftwareUpdatable and constrained devices

  • Monitor software updates via mass management rules

  • Encryption of software updates

  • Redelivering commands for open actions

  • Differences when using Bosch IoT Rollouts standalone and within Bosch IoT Device Management

• Default connections

  • Default Hub connection - 2023

• General retry and reconnect guidelines for applications and devices

• Known limits and restrictions

  • Restrictions related to the device connectivity layer

  • Restrictions related to the digital twin layer

  • Restrictions related to the device management layer

  • Restrictions related to the software update management layer

  • Restrictions related to Bosch IoT Edge