Plug and Play mecanism

Introduction

This article details Plug and Play feature mecanism. You should read : Sensor Plug-and-Play concept before.

In Pilot Things IoT VPN, Plug and Play means connect, collect and command an IoT sensor very easily regardless of its connectivity technology.

Steps to connect sensors

Step 1: create the VPN

An IoT VPN is created instancing Pilot Things software and deploy the edge agent on the gateways.

For more details on how to create a VPN see section Secured VPN.

Step 2: connect the sensors

Once the edge agents are deployed connect the sensors.

Mechanism for Type 3 sensors 

This type of sensors are connected to a hardware gateway. In that scenario the architecture is :

The main steps of the mechanism are detailed here under.

Step 1: local registration

The sensor registers to the Edge agent protocol connector. The registration is done using the registration mechanism of the sensor native connectivity protocol (Bluetooth, Modbus...). The sensor is automatically recognized by Pilot Things.

Step 2: data exchange

The Pilot Things Protocol connector activated in the Edge Agent manage the communication between the sensor and Pilot Things central node. 

Step 3: Central node decoding

The central node manage the communication with all the nodes and decode the messages to measures.