Overview

Cumulocity offers a wide range of functionality for interfacing IoT devices and other IoT-related data sources with the Cloud of Things platform.

This Device integration guide provides detailed information on device integration using REST and C++.

For interfacing devices with Cloud of Things, we recommend you to use MQTT and SmartREST, which can be very efficiently implemented using available MQTT client libraries such as Eclipse Paho.

An up-to-date open source reference implementation of a Cloud of Things agent for embedded Linux systems with many device management features can be found at https://github.com/SoftwareAG/cumulocity-agents-linux. Note that the reference implementation currently uses SmartREST 1 with the choice to switch between HTTP and MQTT as transport protocol.

For information on the general concept of agents being used for interfacing IoT data sources with Cloud of Things, refer to Interfacing devices in the Concepts guide.