In this section, we will configure an IoT device in order to access AWS IoT. Several steps should be taken to complete the registration process:
- Firstly, we create a thing type. You can perform this task on the Manage | Types menu from AWS IoT Console and then click on the Create button. Fill in the type name and attributes for your IoT device. For instance, we give a thing type as IoT-Device with name as the thing attribute :
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- After this has been created, you should see it on the Types screen from the AWS IoT dashboard, as shown in the following screenshot:
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- Next, we add three IoT devices into AWS IoT. Navigate to Manage| Things on the AWS IoT dashboard. Then, you add a thing name and its attribute as shown in the screenshot below the table. The following is our configuration of IoT devices:
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