Agent Versions

Operation Systems and Recommendations

Windows 10/11 32-bit/64-bit
Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 x64
Ubuntu Core
Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 on Nvidia Jetson
CentOS 7.7, 8.2 x64
Other Linux flavours (e.g. Yocto) on x86 or RISC (on a per project basis)
Android on RISC (on a per project basis)

Assigned Ports for Device Communication

Name & Description

Outbound Port

Hardware Minimum Requirements:

Intel® Celeron™ 1.10 GHz CPU and at least 2GB of RAM
500 MB root partition for the system
Advantech HW with respective SUSI driver 3.02/4.0 support is required for the HWM (Hardware Monitoring Management) feature to be available

Advantech provides a device client that is used to communicate and exchange information between IoT (Internet of Things) devices and the DeviceOn cloud services, called DeviceOn Agent. DeviceOn Agent provides a rich set of user-friendly features that are intelligent, standardized and scalable.

Standardization

The communication protocol between client and cloud is based on the industry standard MQTT protocol. The IoT sensor data format is following the IPSO Alliance definition, implemented in JSON.

Portability

The whole framework is written in C language and follows the ANSI C Standard. C compilers are widely available for most platforms and allow easy porting to different architectures or operating systems.

Scalability

The DeviceOn Agent has a modular design and provides a plugin concept that allows flexible addition of new data sources or extra functionality.

DeviceOn Agent is support on different platforms running Windows 7 (or newer) or Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (or newer). Please contact us for others architectures (e.g. RISC) or operating systems (e.g. Yocto based Linux/Android).

Agent Architecture

DeviceOn Agent includes two parts, one is the Core Framework and Plugins.

Core Framework is the main library used to communicate with WISE-PaaS IoTHub or standard MQTT broker and include below components

Platform Profiler: describes the target platform (e.g., OS version, SN, Device name, MAC address)
Configuration: describes how to connect to MQTT broker (e.g., Credential URL, IoTKey, TLS/SSL settings)
Core Manager: integrates and manages the resources and keeps them alive.
Core Command: responsible for handling commands that interact with internal components (e.g., rename, update, get capability, auto report start/stop)
Plugin SDK: A plugin framework that makes plugin implement more easily.
Keep Alive: A component to detect the connection between DeviceOn Agent and DeviceOn Server.
Data Synchronization: kernel plugin that caches and restores data to ensure zero downtime.
Rule Engine: kernel plugin that supports the threshold rule check and then sends event or trigger actions
Plugin Loader: responsible for loading and managing plugins indicated in module_config.xml

The plugins include IPC monitoring (Advantech Hardware, HDD/SSD, Networks, Process…etc.), control function (Backup/Recovery, Protection, Remote Desktop, Terminal…), and sensor protocol collection.

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