Axeda and ARM Mbed – Part 2

In the previous post I described the “thing” side of an Axeda IOT implementation.  That “thing” was a simple potentiometer, read by an ADC in an NXP1124 ARM MBED development kit.  The value was then encoded into a JSON message and posted to the Axeda cloud over an ethernet/IP connection.

In this post I will describe the Internet (Cloud) side of their system.  Start by opening http://toolbox.axeda.com and clicking on the little wireless router icon next to the “Your Devices”

 

You will then have a screen that has the following panels

1. Data Items.  A list of the variables that have been added to your Axeda instance. With links to add, edit and view the data.

2. AMMP Info.  A panel where you can send JSON formatted messages to the server to simulate client behavior.

3. MBED Widget. A graphical representation of one of the data items in a cutesy picture format.

 

On the data item panel you can

1. See the current value of your data

2. Manual edit the data (by clicking on the pen/pad icon)

3. View a table of the data (by clicking on the alarm clock icon)

4. View a graph of the data (by clicking on the graph icon)

In my next post I will summarize my experience using Axeda and outline some next possible steps.