Navigate to the Bosch IoT Suite Console

Bosch IoT Suite Console (aka developer console) is a Web UI, which supports various use cases related to device and software management.

One major use case is device provisioning. You will be able to register a device in the context of the Bosch IoT Hub service, and create a digital twin representation of this device called thing in the context of the Bosch IoT Things service.

1. Navigate to the Bosch IoT Suite portal.

2. Click Go to Developer Console for your subscribed instance.

   

   The developer console will open in a new browser tab.

Provide provisioning settings

1. Click Provisioning in the left sidebar.
   The opened view shows the 3 steps required for provisioning:

   • Settings: this view is opened by default

   • Preview: view and manage the data which will be used to provision the device

   • Connect device: prepare the connection of your device by saving the response data and configuration properties

2. The preset option Start from scratch is pre-selected by default and you can continue with this one.

   If you prefer to start with a device based on a Vorto information model, go through the following examples for more information, depending on your use case:

   • for virtual demo device, see Device connection - Virtual demo device

   • for real hardware, see Physical device connection - Octopus

   For devices based on a private Vorto model definition, see Configure access to a private Vorto repository first.

3. Select how the device is connected, e.g. as a stand-alone, gateway, or edge device via gateway.
   The Stand-alone device is pre-selected and you can continue with this one.

4. In section Thing ID you will need to specify the ID. This will be used for the device, thing, and policy.
   In case you have not defined a namespace yet, you will need to do it now - otherwise the namespace field will be populated with the namespace we just created.

5. Enter a unique Name.
   The full identifier that Bosch IoT Device Management will register is your.namespace:your-device-name.

6. Provide a password for your device in plain text.

7. Confirm with Next.

Preview and send the provisioning request

Before sending the request, you can review, and if needed, manage and refine the data (thing ID, device credentials, attributes, features) according to your needs.

1. Check whether all provided data are correct and ready for provisioning.

   1. The Manage tab will indicate all valid sections with .

   2. In tab Request body you can preview and adjust the content in JSON notation.

2. Click Send request.

Save the response and prepare the connection of your device

The Connect device view provides information needed to connect your device (e.g. credentials) which should be saved.

1. Save the response of the provision request containing properties which you will need to pass to the physical device or gateway, which will try to connect.
   A file called provisioning.json will be downloaded to our local machine.

2. Copy your password in plain text and store it at a safe place.
   Note, that your password will henceforth only be displayed in encoded/hashed form.

3. Click Go to thing to see the digital twin representation.

You have provisioned the following entities:

• A device in the context of Bosch IoT Hub, associated with credentials.

• A digital twin called thing.

• The twin is associated with a policy.