Learning AWS IoT

Selecting your IoT devices for AWS IoT

We already know that there are a lot of IoT devices on the market. To work with AWS IoT, Amazon provides guidelines about a list of IoT devices with supported AWS IoT. You can read it at https://aws.amazon.com/iot-platform/getting-started/#kits. Otherwise, you can use own IoT devices and ensure that they are compatible with AWS IoT SDK by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/iot-platform/sdk/.

From this, you can make a self-assessment when you select an IoT device for the AWS IoT platform. You can verify your selection with the following questions:

• Does the IoT device have a network capability? A network capability probably can identity network features such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee and ...