What do you need to try out the IoT services?
You need a free SAP HANA Cloud Platform developer account (trial instance): Signing Up for a Developer Account.
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How to Subscribe to the IoT services?
Enabling the SAP HANA Cloud Platform Internet of Things (IoT) services
- Log on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform cockpit:
- Access for trial accounts: https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit.
- Access for productive accounts: https://account.hana.ondemand.com/cockpit.
- Go to the Services tab.
- Select the Internet of Things Services entry.
- Choose Enable.
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- A subscription of the Internet of Things Services will be automatically assigned to your account. This subscription includes Remote Device ManagementService (including IoT Cockpit) and Message Management Service capabilities.
- The "IoT-User" role is automatically assigned to your user. The role is required to access the Internet of Things Services Cockpit.
Further documentation: https://help.hana.ondemand.com/iot> Getting Started > Enabling Internet of Things Services
How to Get Started?
Accessing the Internet of Things services Cockpit
The Internet of Things Cockpit allows you to register devices in a secure manner. Every device must have a certain device type which is specified by its supported message types. You can define both types in the IoT Cockpit as well.
- Choose Go to Service for the Internet of Things services subscription.
- The Internet of Things services Cockpit is displayed.
Deploying Message Management Service
The deployment of the Message Management Service (MMS) is necessary to be able to send data from a device to your consumer account.
- Go to the Internet of Things Services Cockpit.
- Choose the Deploy Message Management Service tile which opens the MMS deployment tooling.
- Fill in the target consumer Account ID (pre-filled) from the SAP HANA Cloud Platform cockpit, and enter your HCP User Name(pre-filled) and Password.
Further documentation: https://help.hana.ondemand.com/iot> Getting Started > Deploying the Message Management Service (MMS)
You can now start creating Device Types, Message Types and Devices in the Internet of Things Services Cockpit and send data from a device. The following section describes an example.
How to connect my first device?
The Starter Kit for the SAP HANA Cloud Platform Internet of Things (IoT) Services includes a documentation and code snippets which provide a complete end-to-end example of how to use the IoT services. You will learn how to enable the services as well as how to send messages and how to receive push messages. Moreover, a sample data consumption UI is provided.
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