Integrating Monnit MINE with AWS

Disclaimer: Process should be completed by a software developer with knowledge of AWS.

Needed prior to starting:

1. Monnit MINE
2. AWSSDK

Step 1:

• Engineer builds a program to integrate with AWS
• Add your custom endpoint to the code
• AWS Knowledge article: https://aws.amazon.com/iot-platform/getting-started/
• See code example below:

Step 2:

• Go to the AWS IoT console
• Click “Resources”
• Click the question mark on the far-right hand side of the screen to get your custom endpoint

Get a certificate and private key from the AWS IoT console

Step 3:

• Go to the AWS IoT console
• Click “Create a resource”
• Click “Create a certificate”
• Check the “Activate” box
• Click “1-Click certificate create”
• Click “Show private key”
• Copy the private key contents into a file `private.pem.key`
• Click “Show certificate”
• Copy the certificate contents into a file `certificate.pem.crt`
• Keep these credentials for future use

Create a policy that allows access to all AWS IoT data plane actions

Step 4

• Go to the AWS IoT console
• Click “Create a resource”
• Click “Create a policy”
• Name the policy “YourPolicyName”
• Set the action to `iot:*`
• Set the resource to `*`
• Check the “Allow” box
• Click “Add statement”
• Click “Create”

Attach the policy to your certificate

Step 5

• Go to the AWS IoT console
• Click on the certificate you created
• Click “Actions”
• Click “Attach a policy”
• Type “YourPolicyName” in the policy name field
• Click “Attach”

Subscribe to a MQTT client

• Go to MQTT client
• Generate Client ID
• Click Connect
• Click Subscribe to Topic
• Input Subscription Topic Name
• Click Subscribe
• Json will publish to Dialog box (dialog box shown below)

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