AWS IoT Device Management

Overview

• Tool to manage millions of IoT devices
• Onboarding
  • templates for bulk-registration (device provisioning)
  • hetergenous devices
    • Amazon FreeRTOS based
    • Greengrass based
• Organization
  • Extends IoT Device Registry
  • Hierarchical model
    • Policies can be set on sub-hierarchies
    • Groups
  • Queries (fleet search)
    • e.g. device type, firmware version
• Monitoring
  • Gathers telemetry (real-time connection, status, authentication)
• Remote Management

Job

• Can target specific device groups
• Examples
  • Selective fleet update (OTA)
    • software/firmware update
  • Collect diagnostics (e.g. engine started >= 20K times)
  • Device reboot