Abstract: This article explains the detailed steps for adding a new device to the Alibaba Cloud IoT platform.
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1. Log in to the platform
Log in to the Alibaba Cloud IoT platform. By default, you are already registered.
Log in to the console and create a product.
Products and equipment are different concepts. Take the common daily "lights" as an example. The "lights" with the attributes of "switch", "brightness" and even "color" are products. It is an abstract concept, and you have a built-in wifi chip. The specific "light" is the equipment. For example, if you have produced 50 IoT "lights" this time, you can name them light1, light2.....light50. Each light has the attributes of "switch" and "brightness". These are all "devices" .
https://iot.console.aliyun.com/product
2. New product
As shown in the figure below, enter a customized product name in the product name. Then choose among the standard categories, such as the smart city—public service—street lighting in the figure below. If you choose this, then several attributes are defined.
After creating the product, you can view the details.
In the new page, you can see many attributes. Such as working status, dimming level, etc. You can also customize attributes.
3. Add device
Switch to the device page and add the device of the product.
Enter "DeviceName" in the new page, which is the device name. Set to light1 here.
After adding successfully, you can view the device information.
After adding a new device, the current device displays "Inactive". If the real device is debugged and successfully connected once, the status becomes "offline" or "online".
Check the triples. These are the "ID cards" of the IoT device. When developing the device, you need to burn these three sets of data into it. Only in this way can the real devices and the "virtual devices" of the IoT cloud platform have a one-to-one correspondence.
