Category: Technical How-to

Update: The content in this blog references AWS IoT Greengrass v1. AWS recommends that customers who require IoT services at the edge deploy AWS IoT Greengrass v2. AWS IoT Greengrass v2 builds on the architectural pillars of AWS IoT Greengrass v1 with a robust, extensible gateway core and a completely new API supporting a wide variety of […]

The AWS IoT Analytics platform offers configurable dataflows for processing messages from IoT devices, which can be either uni-schema or multi-schema. When you have billions of messages and millions of IoT devices, you need efficient designs for message-processing dataflows. In this post, you do a deep dive into various aspects of designing dataflows. You learn […]

Update: The content in this blog references AWS IoT Greengrass v1, which has been replaced AWS IoT Greengrass v2. AWS IoT Greengrass v2 builds on the powerful architectural pillars of Greengrass v1 with a robust, extensible gateway core that is supported on a wide set of devices. Moreover, AWS IoT Greengrass v2 has a new […]

Amazon FreeRTOS 2019.06.00 Major now includes Bluetooth Low Energy MQTT proxy support to simplify tasks such as Wi-Fi provisioning and secure connections to AWS IoT services. The Bluetooth Low Energy feature enables you to build low-power devices that can be paired to a customer’s mobile device for connectivity without requiring Wi-Fi. Devices can communicate using […]

2018 saw the fourth year of drought and the worst in recorded history for the city of Cape Town, South Africa. “Day zero” was a term coined by the city for the day when they would have to turn the water off for citizens. Fortunately, “day zero” was never realized, and Cape Town didn’t go […]

Update: The content in this blog references AWS IoT Greengrass v1, which has been replaced AWS IoT Greengrass v2. AWS IoT Greengrass v2 builds on the powerful architectural pillars of Greengrass v1 with a robust, extensible gateway core that is supported on a wide set of devices. Also, KEPServerEX is now PTC KepWare+. For further […]

In this blog post, I will show you how you can use AWS CloudFormation to set up AWS IoT Greengrass quickly and in a repeatable manner. I will discuss the AWS IoT Greengrass resource types and how they are related to a Greengrass group deployment. I will also demonstrate a deployment that uses an AWS […]

Note: The runtime parameter of Python 2.7 is no longer supported for creating or updating the AWS Lambda functions. We recommend you use a supported runtime while creating or updating functions. An IoT solution requires managing a large number of devices, usually hundreds of thousands or millions. When you start to work at a large […]

Note: This article references Node.js 8.10 (now deprecated) and Amazon CloudWatch Events (now Amazon EventBridge) – please use Node.js 20.x+ runtime and Amazon EventBridge console for current implementations. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use new capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management fleet indexing. Starting now, you can use aggregation queries in […]

AWS IoT Device Defender supports your efforts to secure your IoT device fleet. AWS IoT Device Defender Detect establishes a baseline behavior for IoT devices and then identifies devices that do not conform as anomalous. AWS IoT Device Defender Detect operates on security profiles, which are applied to the entire device fleet, or to a […]