Intel® Edison and Grove IoT Starter Kit Powered by AWS

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Designed for expert makers, entrepreneurs, and industrial IoT companies, the Intel Edison module provides easier prototyping with a fully open source hardware and software development environment. It supports Wi-Fi and BLE 4.0 connectivity. This kit contains eleven selective Grove sensors and actuators for you to track indoor environment as well as to create smart-house applications.

Included in the Box

Board/Part	Qty	Documentation
Intel® Edison for Arduino	1	Read Here
Base Shield	1	Read Here
Grove - Temperature&Humidity Sensor (High-Accuracy & Mini)	1	Read Here
Grove - Moisture Sensor	1	Read Here
Grove - Light Sensor	1	Read Here
Grove - UV Sensor	1	Read Here
Grove - PIR Motion Sensor	1	Read Here
Grove - Encoder	1	Read Here
Grove - Button	1	Read Here
Grove - LCD RGB Backlight	1	Read Here
Grove - Relay	1	Read Here
Grove - Servo	1	Read Here
Grove - Buzzer	1	Read Here
USB Cable; 480mm-Black	1
USB Wall Power Supply	1

Features

Out-of-the-box, plug and play, no breadboard or soldering work required.
Fully compliant with AWS's services and AWS's practices.
Step-by-step tutorials for developers and makers for quicker prototyping.

Getting Started

Configure Your AWS IoT Service

Visit amazone AWS console, register and logon your account.

1. Goto the dashboard, click Service --> AWS IoT

2. Click Get started

3. Create a new user

4. Save user name and download Security Credentials

5.Seeting Attach Policy with AdministratorAccess

6.Create a thing

At this section you can also refer to the Beagle Bone wiki for another way to create a thing and finish the left tasks. The difference is Beagle Bone didn’t use AWS CLI tool to Get Certifications.

Setting up AW IoT device SDK on the intel edison board

Before you begin

Make sure you have run the configure_edison --setup command to set up your board
Make sure your Intel® Edison board is online via your local Wi-Fi network (should occur during configure_edison setup)
Login ediosn console with ssh(Use putty or Xshell).

Install AWS CLI
The AWS CLI is a way to manage your AWS services from your board. You need this first in order to download the SDK.

1.First, you need to install pip (Python package manager):

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o - | python
easy_install pip

2.Next, install the AWS CLI with pip:

pip install awscli

Note: In order to view the help files ("aws iot help") you need to install Groff and a non-BusyBox version of less.

3.For Groff:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf groff-1.22.3.tar.gz
cd groff-1.22.3
./configure
make
make install
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
cd ~

4.For Less: First rename the old version of less

mv /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less-OLD
Then install the new version of less
wget http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-458.zip
unzip less-458.zip
cd less-458
chmod 777 *
./configure
make
make install
cd ~

5.To make sure everything has installed correctly, run the iot help file:

aws iot help

Get AWS credentials:
At this point, you should have AWS CLI installed. And the Access ID and Key you have download before, configure AWS and enter the ID and Key with:

aws configure

1.First create a folder to store your certificates in:

$ mkdir aws_certs
$ cd aws_certs

2.Generate a private key with open ssl:

openssl genrsa -out privateKey.pem 2048
openssl req -new -key privateKey.pem -out cert.csr

3.Fill out the fields with your info.

4.Run the following to activate the certificate:

aws iot create-certificate-from-csr --certificate-signing-request file://cert.csr --set-as-active > certOutput.txt

5.Run the following to save the certificate into a cert.pem file:

aws iot describe-certificate --certificate-id <certificate ID> --output text --query certificateDescription.certificatePem  > cert.pem

NOTE: Replace <certificate ID> with the ID stored in the "certificateId" field in certOutput.txt. To view the file enter: more certOutput.txt

6.Create a Json policy document for AWS IoT SDK:

Copy the following text (ctrl-c):

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action":["iot:*"],
"Resource": ["*"]
}]
}

Enter vi policy.doc hit a and right click to paste the text
Hit escape and type in :wq to save and quit

7.First enter:

 aws iot create-policy --policy-name PubSubToAnyTopic --policy-document file://policy.doc

Notice:The policy name can be anything.

8.After that a policy and a certificate can be shown on your AWS console.

9.Then attach the policy to the certificate with:

aws iot attach-principal-policy --principal <principal arn> --policy-name "PubSubToAnyTopic"

NOTE: replace <principal arn> with the value stored in "certifcateArn" in the outputCert.txt file.

10.You should see your certificate has attach to your policy.

Use MQTT to subscribe and publish to AWS

Now that the certificates are in order we can use MQTT to subscribe and publish to the cloud.
First get the root CA pem file:

curl https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/verisign/roots/VeriSign-Class%203-Public-Primary-Certification-Authority-G5.pem > rootCA.pem

Coding your application with nodejs

1.Create a nodejs project

cd ~
mkdir aws_nodejs && cd aws_nodejs
npm init
npm install --save aws-iot-device-sdk
touch main.js

2.Copy and save demo code to main.js

vi main.js

// Plug Grove - Relay to base shield port D2
// Plug Grove - Temperature&Huminity(High quality) to i2c port
 
var sensor1 = require('jsupm_th02');
var th02 = new sensor1.TH02();
 
var sensor2 = require('jsupm_grove');
var relay = new sensor2.GroveRelay(2);
 
// Simulate device value
var temp = 24.00;
var humi = 50;
var relayState = false;
var reported_state = {"Temperature":temp, "Humidity": humi, "RelayState": relayState};
 
//
// Client token value returned from thingShadows.update() operation//app deps
const thingShadow = require('./node_modules/aws-iot-device-sdk/thing');// Plug Grove - Relay to base shield port D2
// Plug Grove - Temperature&Huminity(High quality) to i2c port
 
var sensor1 = require('jsupm_th02');
var th02 = new sensor1.TH02();
 
var sensor2 = require('jsupm_grove');
var relay = new sensor2.GroveRelay(2);
 
var awsIot = require('aws-iot-device-sdk');
 
var thingShadows = awsIot.thingShadow({
    keyPath: '/home/root/aws_certs/privateKey.pem',
    certPath: '/home/root/aws_certs/cert.pem',
    caPath: '/home/root/aws_certs/rootCA.pem',
    clientId: 'myAwsClientId',
    region: 'us-east-1'
});
 
// Simulate device value
var temp = 24.00;
var humi = 50;
var relayState = false;
 
//
// Client token value returned from thingShadows.update() operation
//
var clientTokenUpdate;
 
var thingName = "EdisonDemo";
thingShadows.on('connect', function() {
    thingShadows.register(thingName);
    console.log(thingName + ' registering...');
 
    setInterval(function(){
      readSensor(sendData);
    }, 5000);
});
 
thingShadows.on('status', function(thingName, stat, clientToken, stateObject) {
    console.log('   received '+stat+' on '+thingName+': '+ JSON.stringify(stateObject));
    //
    // These events report the status of update(), get(), and delete()
    // calls.  The clientToken value associated with the event will have
    // the same value which was returned in an earlier call to get(),
    // update(), or delete().  Use status events to keep track of the
    // status of shadow operations.
    //
});
 
thingShadows.on('delta', function(thingName, stateObject) {
    console.log('    received delta on '+thingName+': '+ JSON.stringify(stateObject));
 
    if(stateObject.state.RelayState == true){
        relay.on();
        console.log('Relay is on.');
    }
    else if(stateObject.state.RelayState == false) {
        relay.off();
        console.log('Relay is off.');
    }
});
 
thingShadows.on('timeout', function(thingName, clientToken) {
    console.log('    received timeout on '+thingName + ' with token: '+ clientToken);
    //
    // In the event that a shadow operation times out, you'll receive
    // one of these events.  The clientToken value associated with the
    // event will have the same value which was returned in an earlier
    // call to get(), update(), or delete().
    //
});
 
function readSensor(callback){
    temp = th02.getTemperature();
    humi = th02.getHumidity();
    relayState = relay.isOn();
 
    callback();
};
 
function sendData(){
    var reported_state = {"Temperature":temp, "Humidity": humi, "RelayState": relayState};    
    var relayTH02State = {"state":{desired: reported_state}};  // Use desired attribute can receive delta
    // More info refer to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/thing-shadow-mqtt.html#update-pub-sub-message
 
    clientTokenUpdate = thingShadows.update(thingName, relayTH02State);
 
    if (clientTokenUpdate === null)
    {
       console.log('update shadow failed, operation still in progress');
    }
};