To use LinkVisual provided by Alibaba Cloud, you must purchase an IoT Platform instance and enable LinkVisual for the instance. You can connect devices to the instance and manage your business on the instance. This topic describes how to enable LinkVisual.
Prerequisites
IoT Platform is activated.
Procedure
Log on to the IoT Platform console.
On the Overview tab, click Purchase Instance in the Purchase Enterprise Edition Instance section.
On the buy page, configure the required specifications based on your business requirements and complete the payment.
To enable LinkVisual, set the LinkVisual parameter to Enable, and then configure the Public Bandwidth for Videos and Video Storage Space parameters based on your business requirements. For more information, see Purchase Enterprise Edition instances.
NoteThis parameter is available only for standard instances in the Japan (Tokyo) region.
After you purchase an instance, the system assigns an instance name, such as
iot-z2q1***
. You can find the instance on the Overview tab and click the instance name to go to the Instance Details page. On the page, you can view the instance specifications.
What to do next
After you purchase an instance, create a product and then add an IP camera to the product.