November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 20m
English
Content preview from Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition
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Naming your devices
One of the first activities to perform when planning your device-naming schemes is the creation of thing types. AWS IoT service allows you to create and allocate the thing type to each thing that you onboard into their cloud.
We have covered naming conventions previously in this book, so here we focus on the data that can be associated with a device within the cloud environment. For Microsoft Azure, IoT device identity properties are configured per device, and can include the properties listed in the following table:
|
Identity Property |
Description |
|
deviceId |
Up to 128 ASCII characters in length |
|
generationId |
Azure-generated identifier |
|
etag |
An entity tag per RFC 7232 |
|
auth |
Contains authentication ... |