Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT output type in ArcGIS Velocity sends event data to the AWS Internet of Things (IoT). AWS IoT is a managed cloud service that provides a solution for connected devices to interact with AWS cloud services, as well as other IoT devices.

Learn more about AWS IoT

Examples

The following are example use cases for the output:

  • A data analyst wants to send the results of their big data analytic to AWS IoT Hub.
  • A logistics company configures an AWS IoT output to send enriched vehicle fleet information to various department systems.

Usage note

AWS IoT connection parameters can be obtained from the AWS IoT web interface.

Parameters

The following are the parameters for the output:

ParameterDescriptionData type
Endpoint

The endpoint for the AWS IoT broker.

String

Access key ID

The access key for the AWS IoT credentials.

String

Secret access key

The secret access key for the AWS IoT credentials.

Password

Topic

The topic over which event messages are streamed.

String

Quality of Service level

Specifies the Quality of Service (QoS) level for a connection to the AWS IoT message broker. The AWS IoT message broker supports QoS levels 0 and 1. For more information, refer to the QoS options in the AWS documentation.

  • 0—At most once. The message is sent once and the client and broker take no additional steps to acknowledge delivery (fire and forget).
  • 1—At least once. The message is retried by the sender multiple times until acknowledgment is received (acknowledged delivery).

Integer

Session token (optional)

The session token for the AWS IoT broker.

String

Configure message from an Arcade expression

The message constructed using an ArcGIS Arcade expression.

Arcade expression

Send feature to AWS IoT in specified format

The feature sent to AWS IoT in a specified format. When you choose this parameter, the Data format option appears. The default data format option is Delimited. Other supported formats include EsriJSON, GeoJSON, and JSON .

Data format type