Certificate Authentication

Platform overview

·  Explain platform capabilities and functionality.

·  Discussion on your use case to highlight key points during the training session.

Platform installation

·  Review available installation options. Highlight security and configuration aspects.

·  Exercise: setup ThingsBoard instance on AWS.

Rule Engine

·  Explain Rule engine data flow.

·  Review Rule components: messages, relations, nodes and their available implementations.

·  Exercise: configure alerting rule based on device attributes and timeseries values.

Device connectivity options

·  Review of supported network protocols: MQTT, HTTP and CoAP.

·  Exercise: telemetry data upload using MQTT.

·  Exercise: telemetry data upload using HTTP.

·  Exercise: telemetry data upload using CoAP.

Platform API

·  REST API overview.

·  Exercise: Create tenant, device and customer using REST API.

·  Exercise: Create dashboard and assign it to user using REST API.

·  Exercise: Send RPC command to device using REST API.

·  Exercise: Fetch device data using REST API.

·  Exercise: Update device attribute using REST API.

·  Exercise: Subscribe to device data feed using websocket.

ThingsBoard API

·  Explain ThingsBoard API for device connectivity and integration with server-side applications.

·  Exercise: create device firmware to publish telemetry and attributes over MQTT.

·  Exercise: add widgets to the Dashboard to visualize data from the previous exercise.

Attributes API

·  Use cases and feature overview.

·  Exercise: Reporting device attribute changes to ThingsBoard.

·  Exercise: Subscribe to server-side attribute updates.

·  Exercise: Save and restore application state using ThingsBoard server.

Timeseries API

·  Use cases and feature overview.

·  Exercise: Reporting time-series data to ThingsBoard.

RPC API

·  Use cases and feature overview.

·  Exercise: Send one-way RPC command to Device.

·  Exercise: Send two-way RPC command to Device.

·  Exercise: Send RPC command from Device to Server.

Messaging between Devices

·  Messaging rule nodes overview.

·  Exercise: Send message from one device application to another.

Web UI

·  Explain basic web UI capabilities and main entities: Devices, Customers, Users, Dashboards.

·  Review available widget types and explain their basic configuration parameters.

·  Explain ThingsBoard user roles and their permissions.

·  Exercise: create Device and provision Device Credentials.

·  Exercise: create Dashboard and assign it to the Customer.

Data collection and analytics

·  Use cases and data flow overview.

·  Exercise: Pushing telemetry and attributes data to Kafka.

·  Exercise: Pushing telemetry and attributes data to RabbitMQ.

·  Exercise: Pushing telemetry and attributes data to REST API.

Single-node platform installation

·  Explain installation options. Highlight security and configuration aspects.

·  Exercise: setup ThingsBoard instance on AWS using public AMIs.

·  Exercise: setup ThingsBoard instance on CentOS.

ThingsBoard configuration

·  Explain main configuration files.

·  Exercise: general system configuration.

ThingsBoard troubleshooting

·  Review log files and their configuration.

·  Exercise: changing log levels for particular components.

ThingsBoard cluster installation

·  Explain cluster deployment options and configuration.

·  Exercise: ThingsBoard cluster setup.

·  Exercise: ThingsBoard cluster setup troubleshooting.

Load Balancing, Scalability, and Failover

·  Use cases and platform capabilities overview.

·  ThingsBoard architecture overview.

·  Exercise: Tuning cluster performance.

·  Exercise: Scaling ThingsBoard cluster.

·  Exercise: Replacing Failed node.

·  Exercise: Load balancing device connections.

·  Exercise: Load balancing server-side API calls.

Security

·  Use cases and security options overview.

·  Exercise: Securing MQTT API calls using SSL and X.509 certificates.

·  Exercise: Securing HTTP API calls using SSL.