A product consists of multiple devices of the same type. In most cases, these devices have the same features. For example, you can create a product to represent a hardware product model, and create a device of the product model. Before you connect a device to IoT Platform, you must create a product in the IoT Platform console. This topic describes how to create a product.
Prerequisites
- IoT Platform is activated.
- If you want to create a product in an Enterprise Edition instance, you must first
purchase an Enterprise Edition instance. For more information, see Purchase Enterprise Edition instances.
For more information about IoT Platform instances, see Overview.
Procedure
What to do next
- Configure the product.
- On the Products page, click View in the Actions column corresponding to the product that you want to configure.
- On the product details page, click a tab and perform the related operations.
Tab Description References Product Information You can view the product information and modify tags for the product. Add product tags Topic Categories You can view the topic categories that are preset in IoT Platform, which are topics for basic communications, topics for TSL communications, and custom topic categories. You can add custom topic categories to the product. Define Feature You can configure the properties, events, and services for a TSL model, which is used for TSL communication. Data Parsing If the Data Type parameter of the product is set to Custom, you need to write a script to parse data. Server-side Subscription You can create server-side subscription to forward the data submitted by the devices of the product. Configure an AMQP server-side subscription
- Provision devices.
On the product details page, click the Device Provisioning tab. You can create a device, configure device features, burn a certificate to the device, and authenticate the device when you establish a connection. After you configure the device, you can connect the device to IoT Platform. For more information, see Connect devices to IoT Platform.
- In the upper-right corner of the product details page, click Publish to publish the product.
Before you publish the product, make sure that all parameters of the product are configured, and devices are configured and debugged.
After the product is published, the product enters the Published state.
Important When the product is in the Published state, it cannot be modified or deleted. - Optional. Unpublish a published product. In the upper-right corner of the product details page, click Cancel Publishing. In the message that appears, click OK.
- Optional. Go to the Products page and perform the following operations on a product that is not published.
Operation Procedure Modify the product You can modify the name and description of the product.
- Click View in the Actions column corresponding to the product.
- On the Product Information tab, click Edit to the right of the Product Information section.
- In the Edit Product Information dialog box, modify the Product Name and Product Description parameters.
- Click OK.
Delete the product If a product is not published, you can delete the product.
Warning All data related to the product will be deleted. If devices of the product have been connected with IoT Platform, all their services will become unavailable and customer business will be interrupted. Proceed with caution.- Before you delete a product, you must delete all devices of the product. For more information, see Delete a device.
- Click Delete in the Actions column corresponding to the product.
- Click OK.