FairCom Edge IoT Database

FairCom Edge Developer Quick Start

This chapter covers installation and tutorials to get you immediately up-and-running with FairCom Edge in your projects.

The FairCom Edge environment requires three components:

1. FairCom Edge. See the FairCom Installation Guide.
2. Plug-in - A plug-in extends FairCom Edge. Many plug-ins exist. You can use plug-ins supplied by FairCom and you can create your own plug-ins. You may add a plug-in to integrate FairCom Edge with another system such as ThingWorx AlwaysOn. You may add a new communications protocol, such as MQTT, OPC UA, and REST. You may add a new transformation capability, such as processing Cognex image data. You may add a new processing capability, such as running a machine learning algorithm.

   The Supported Plug-ins chapter provides information and tutorials for connecting to a variety of platforms.

3. Tools - Administrative tools are available in GUI and Command-Line form. See the Administrative Tools chapter.

The server is packaged together with a set of plug-ins for popular environments (ThingWorx, Node-RED, MQTT, REST, etc.).

Tutorials

The Tutorials chapter contains a set of tutorials to help you get going in a hurry:

• Tutorial for ThingWorx AlwaysOn Plug-in
• Tutorial for the ThingWorx MQTT Extension
• Tutorials for the Node.js REST API
• Tutorial for Using Node.js with FairCom Edge
• Tutorial for Using Node-RED with the FairCom Edge MQTT Broker
• Tutorial for Node-RED
• Tutorial for Using Python with FairCom Edge MQTT
• FairCom Edge REST API
• Tutorial for OPC UA Installation and Configuration
• Configuring the MQTT Plug-in
• MQTT Store and Forward

See also:

• FairCom MQTT Reference Guide
• FairCom REST API Developer's Guide
• Node.js
• REST API
• FairCom Connector for ThingWorx AlwaysOn
• FairCom ODK Driver

Installation:

• FairCom Installation Guide
• FairCom Edge WinIoT
• FairCom Edge Android Installation

In This Chapter Starting and Stopping FairCom Edge