OpenRemote offers OEMs automatic provisioning of IoT devices

As a device manufacturer or an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) you require a secure and automated way to connect your devices to your IoT data platform. Once online, you want your (end) users to get access to these devices. This gives you the opportunity to collect data for R&D, monitor your devices to lower maintenance cost, and offer new services to your customers and end users. That’s what OpenRemote offers you as of today.

When manufacturing your devices you want to prepare them in such a way that they automatically connect to your platform and present a certificate when powered on at the customer side. The certificate will be checked in OpenRemote when the device tries to register. This way only authorised devices can connect.

This secure auto provisioning flow (using X.509 or HMAC) allows the device to create and connect to a new asset in OpenRemote. You can define the asset type and roles, such that OpenRemote will reflect it as the correct type and enable secure two-way communication, over MQTT, with the respective attributes. 

Now that your devices automatically create their asset counterpart in the IoT platform, you also want to give your users access to the devices relevant to them. Typically we see four user levels here: