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Set up account and device on IBM Watson IoT platform

The instruction walks you through the process of creating your own IoT device in just a few steps.

An example dashboard that might be created can look like this: Example dashboard

What is IBM Watson IoT Platform

IBM Watson IoT Platform is a clean and simple UI where you can simply and easily add and manage your devices, control access to your IoT service, and monitor your usage. It's free of charge with a limit of up to 500 devices and 200MB of data transfer.

Installation

Install requirements

After you've created virtual environment, your current directory should be "iot-starter"

pip install -r IBM/requirements.txt

Set up IBM Watson account

If you are stuck or something will be unclear in next few steps, we recommend looking at official IBM documentation about Getting Started at this link.

1. Create account

First, you need to create an account on IBM Watson IoT Platform website: ibm.com.

2. Create your first application and device endpoint

Create an IoT Platform Service Lite instance directly from the Platform Service Page in the IBM Cloud Service Catalog.
On the service page, click Launch to start administering your IBM Watson IoT Platform organization. The IBM Watson IoT Platform web console opens in a new browser tab at the following URL: https://<org_id>.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com/dashboard/#/overview Where org_id is the ID of your IBM Watson IoT Platform organization.

3. Create a device

  1. In your IBM Watson IoT Platform dashboard, hover over the left side panel, and choose "Devices".
  2. Click "Add Device" in the top right corner.
  3. Create a device type. The device type name can be up to 36 characters long and contain only: Alpha-numeric characters, Hyphens(-), Underscores(_) and Periods(.). For example (IoTStarter)
  4. Enter a device ID and click "Next".
  5. Optional: Enter device type attributes and metadata and click "Next". (You can add and edit it later)
  6. Enter an Authentication Token or click "Next" to auto-generate a Token.
  7. Verify your information about the device and select "Finish" to add the device
  8. IMPORTANT: Save your device credentials, as you will need them to connect a device. The Authentication token is non-recoverable.

After all steps above, you should have five things:

  • Organization ID
  • Device Type
  • Device ID
  • Authentication Method: "use-token-auth" by default
  • Authentication Token