PIOT-DOC-P04-SUMMARY: Cloud Integration

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Part 04: Cloud Connectivity and Final Project

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About Part 04 (O'Reilly Book Link)

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Part 04 is the final exercise section, and explores the cloud integration aspects of the IoT, with a focus on pulling all the pieces together to build an end-to-end IoT solution.

This content summarizes the lab module exercises as a companion to the content in the following book sections and chapters from Programming the Internet of Things. They are intended to be used together:

• IV. Connecting To The Cloud
  • 11. Integrating With Various Cloud Services
  • 12. Taming The IoT
• A. Design Road Maps

It's comprised of two Lab Modules:

• Lab Module 11 - Cloud Integration
• Lab Module 12 - Semester Project

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Part 04 Summary (O'Reilly Book Link)

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Key Learning Activities

1. Overall: Learn how to connect the GDA to one or more cloud services using MQTT, and how to enhance the value of your edge tier solution using a very simple cloud-based analytics service.

2. System Design: Learn how to integrate your GDA with one or more cloud-based IoT environments to scale your system by using the existing connection design patterns established in Part 03.

3. Simple Analytics: Learn how to use a simple analytics service hosted within one or more cloud services to add value to your overall IoT design, finally connecting all the dots to create your end-to-end IoT solution.

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• Please see README.md for further information on, and use of, this content.

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• Please see PIOT-DOC-LIC for license and usage information.

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Part 04 Lab Module Overview

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Lab Module 11

Lab Module 11 - Cloud Integration is focused on configuring your cloud service functionality and updating the GDA to support integration with the cloud service provider's MQTT service.

• PIOT-INF-11-001: An overview of this lab module.
• PIOT-STU-11-001: A summary of lab module and assignment submission instructions for students of Connected Devices.
• PIOT-CFG-11-001: A summary of configuration instructions for this lab module.

GDA specific instructions

• PIOT-GDA-11-000: Git branching instructions.
• PIOT-GDA-11-001: Update MqttClientConnector to support the use of custom configuration sections, protected calls to publish / subscribe / unsubscribe, and the IConnectionListener callback. The latter will eventually be used to notify a listener (e.g., CloudClientConnector) when the connect / disconnect calls complete.
• PIOT-GDA-11-002: Create the ICloudClient interface. This will be used to provide a common set of method signatures for the DeviceDataManager to use for interacting with the cloud client.
• PIOT-GDA-11-003: Implement CloudClientConnector. This involves a significant amount of work, although much of the connectivity logic will be delegated to a locally instanced MqttClientConnector. CloudClientConnector will implement ICloudClient as well as IConnectionListener and will need to pass incoming messages back to DeviceDataManager via the IDataMessageListener interface.
• PIOT-GDA-11-004: This exercise centers on wiring up the interactions between DeviceDataManager, CloudClientConnector, and MqttClientConnector via their various interfaces. It will involve some asynchronous message processing and may require throttling messages to the cloud service.
• PIOT-GDA-11-005: This OPTIONAL exercise is focused on generalization of cloud client connection logic via the base class BaseCloudClient (which will implement ICloudClient). Much of the functionality contained within CloudClientConnector can be migrated to this base class. The CloudClientFactory can then be used to create a specific instance of ICloudClient via the DeviceDataManager as per the implementation details in PIOT-GDA-11-006 and PIOT-GDA-11-007.
• PIOT-GDA-11-006: This OPTIONAL exercise is focused on the creation of a Ubidots-specific ICloudClient implementation that's derived from BaseCloudClient.
• PIOT-GDA-11-007: This OPTIONAL exercise is focused on the creation of an AWS-specific ICloudClient implementation that's derived from BaseCloudClient.
• PIOT-GDA-11-100: Git merge and commit instructions.

CSF specific instructions (OPTIONAL)

• PIOT-CSF-11-000: Git branching instructions (OPTIONAL - only needed if implementing CSF requirements).
• PIOT-CSF-11-001: This OPTIONAL exercise is focused on creation of an AWS-specific Lambda function in Python using some of the existing CDA components for data parsing.
• PIOT-CFG-11-002 This OPTIONAL configuration exercise is focused on the creation of an AWS-specific ZIP file to be used with PIOT-CSF-11-001.
• PIOT-CSF-11-100: Git merge and commit instructions (OPTIONAL - only needed if implementing CSF requirements).

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Lab Module 12

Lab Module 12 - Semester Project is focused on completing the requirements for the Semester Project. This will involve updates to your cloud services configuration / implementation, along with new functionality added to both your GDA and CDA.

• PIOT-INF-12-001: An overview of this lab module.
• PIOT-STU-12-001: A summary of lab module and assignment submission instructions for students of Connected Devices (Part 1 of 2).
• PIOT-STU-12-002: A summary of lab module and assignment submission instructions for students of Connected Devices (Part 2 of 2).

CDA specific instructions

• PIOT-CDA-12-000: Git branching instructions.
• PIOT-CDA-12-001: A summary of the requirements for the CDA.
• PIOT-CDA-12-100: Git merge and commit instructions.

GDA specific instructions

• PIOT-GDA-12-000: Git branching instructions.
• PIOT-GDA-12-001: A summary of the requirements for the GDA.
• PIOT-GDA-12-100: Git merge and commit instructions.

CSF specific instructions

• PIOT-CSF-12-001: A summary of the requirements for your cloud services configuration / implementation.