BIG IoT Documentation, Startup Guide and Example Code

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Why use BIG IoT?

1. The BIG IoT Marketplace gives you:
   • easy access to many relevant data sources - see here
   • allows you to monetize your data/results (i.e. this could be part of your business model for your solution)
     • Disclaimer: Charging and billing functionality is not yet implemented 😃
2. The BIG IoT SDKs allow you to offer and consume data from other stakeholder with a few lines of code (see examples below).

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Related technologies:

• Any data from IoT devicde connected to Bosch IoT Things can be directly offered on the BIG IoT Marketplace using the Bosch Things-Marketplace Connector service.
• Flowhub provides ready to visual programming tools to offer data from IoT devices (including those connected to the Bosch IoT Hub) on the Marketplace. Read more
• bigiot-js is a JavaScript library for offering (provider) and accessing (consumer) BIG IoT data offerings with Node.js

BIG IoT Marketplaces

• Public BIG IoT Marketplace URI: https://market.big-iot.org/
• BCX Marketplace URI: https://market.internal-big-iot.org/

Startup Guides (with step-by-step instructions)

• For a BIG IoT Consumer application (Java)
• For a BIG IoT Provider application (Java)
• For a BIG IoT Android Consumer application (Java)
• For a BIG IoT Node.js Consumer application (JavaScript)

Developer Guide

Java Example project for download: This includes both, a BIG IoT Data Provider and Data Consumer project in Java, including all build files to build and run it direclty (gradlew run) or import it into your IDE.

How to develop a BIG IoT Consumer?

• Simple Consumer example for accessing a known Offering (full example code is available here):

// Initialize Consumer with Consumer ID and marketplace URL
Consumer consumer = new Consumer("Your Consumer ID - get it from Marketplace", "https://market.big-iot.org")
       .authenticate("Your Consumer SECRET - get it from Marketplace");

// Subscribe to Offering by OfferingId
Offering offering = consumer.subscribeByOfferingId("OfferingId - find it on Marketplace").get();

// Define Input Data as access parameters
AccessParameters accessParameters = AccessParameters.create();
       // e.g. .addRdfTypeValue("schema:latitude", 42.0).addRdfTypeValue("schema:longitude", 9.0);

// Access Offering one-time with Access Parameters (input data) --> response includes JSON results
AccessResponse response = offering.accessOneTime(accessParameters).get();

• To get stated, you can use our Java Example Consumer project as template for your own project. It is part of the GitHub example project mentioned above and contains everything to get started!
• A detailed Java developer tutorial for a Consumer can be found here

How to develop a BIG IoT Provider?

• Simple Provider example - register a new Offering on the Marketplace (full example code is available here):

// Initialize provider with provider id and Marketplace URI
ProviderSpark provider = ProviderSpark.create("Your Provider ID - get it from Marketplace", 
                                              "https://market.big-iot.org", "IP address of your node", 6789)
        .authenticate("Your Consumer SECRET - get it from Marketplace");

// Create an Offering Description based on a stored descripton on the Marketplace
RegistrableOfferingDescription offeringDescription = 
        provider.createOfferingDescriptionFromOfferingId("OfferingId - get it from Marketplace");

// Define an Endpoint for your Offering
Endpoints endpoints = Endpoints.create(offeringDescription)
        // provide an AccessRequestHandler - it is called each time a Consmer accesses your offering
        .withAccessRequestHandler(accessCallback);

// Register the offering - from now on it will be discoverable, subscribable and accessible to consumers
provider.register(offeringDescription, endpoints);

• To get stated, you can use our Java Example Provider project as template for your own project. It is part of the GitHub example project mentioned above and contains everything to get started!
• A detailed Java developer tutorial for a Provider can be found here

Further Java example applications for consumers and providers are available here.

Download SDK

Information on how to download and use our SDK directly in your porject is provided here.

Background Information

Background information and details on the BIG IoT architecture and vision are available here.