SmartServer IoT User's Guide

SmartServer IoT is the industry’s first truly open, end-to-end, and extensible edge server that accelerates your system integration projects for industrial IoT applications.  It enables you to monitor and control BACnet, LON, Modbus, and IoT devices, and interface those devices with local workstations and remote cloud services.  

This section describes how to use the SmartServer for planning, provisioning, integrating, operating, maintaining, and diagnosing a site containing industrial IoT devices.  See SmartServer IoT Getting Started for an introduction to key concepts for the SmartServer, and for instructions on how to initially set up a SmartServer.  For step-by-step videos on using the SmartServer, see SmartServer IoT Training Videos.  For a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the SmartServer's integrated Node-RED tool, see SmartServer IoT Node-RED Tutorial.  The following topics describe how to use the SmartServer once you have it set up.

Site Planning

• Defining Users
• Defining Contexts
• Collecting or Creating Device Interface (XIF) Definitions
• Defining Device Types
• Defining Datapoint Properties

Site Provisioning

• Discovering, Defining, or Importing Devices
• Provisioning Devices
• Testing Devices
• Configuring Devices

Site Integration

• Defining Datapoint Connections
• Creating Sequence of Operations
• Creating User Interfaces
• Applying Contexts and Devices to Flows
• Setting up Schedules
• Setting up Alarm E-mail Notifications
• (Optional) Configuring Local I/O Using the IOX
• (Optional) Setting up BACnet
• (Optional) Setting up the IAP/MQ Server
• (Optional) Setting up the OPC UA Server

Site Operation

• Managing Alarm Notifications
• Managing the Calendar
• Viewing Data Trend Reports

Site Maintenance

• Viewing SmartServer Status
• Viewing Device Status Reports
• Viewing Maintenance Reports
• Managing Customer and User Accounts
• Updating the SmartServer Software
• Rebooting Your SmartServer
• Resetting the SmartServer to Factory Defaults
• Deploying a SmartServer Image to Multiple SmartServers
• Backing Up, Restoring, and Cloning the SmartServer
• Managing the SmartServer SD Card

Site Diagnostics

• Using the UaExpert OPC UA Client
• Using the NodeUtil Node Utility for LON Devices
• Using the LonScanner Protocol Analyzer for LON Devices