AIG Series Application Development

For AIG-301/501, please refer to https://github.com/TPE-TIGER/AIG301-501-Application-Development.

AIG Function vs. AIE Module vs. Docker Container vs. Native Application

There are multiple ways for customers to develop, run your own application on AIG device. All these ways allow your application to integrate and leverage ThingsPro Edge's capabilities and features by REST API and SDK.

The application could be edge computing program (to calculate, manipulate, analysis data on edge), data acquisition (to fetch data by proprietary protocols), scheduling task (to arrange routine operation tasks), or data publish program (to transfer data to specific IT system).

Below table gives you ideas how to select suitable application development way to fit your requirements.

	AIG Function	AIE Module / Docker Container	Native Application
Framework	Python program managed by AIG Function	Docker container managed by Azure IoT Edge	By your own
Language	Python 3	All programing language	All programing language
TagHub SDK	Python SDK	Python SDK	Python SDK
Access TPE API	OK	OK	OK
LAN Access	OK	OK	OK
WAN Access	OK	OK	OK
Storage Access	X	OK	OK
Serial Port Access	X	OK (*)	OK (*)
BLE Access	X	OK (*)	OK
Expose REST API	OK	OK	OK
Expose Web GUI	X	OK	OK
Knowledge Require	Python coding tpFunc deployment	- Docker container Application design - Linux Driver & Utility - Azure IoT Edge (AIE Module)	- Debian System - Linux Programming
Program Design Pattern	- Time Driven - Data Driven - Web API Style	By your own	By your own
Other Limitations	- all source code must keep at 1 file

(*1) Serial ports are bind by AIG Modbus Master if there's device enabled in RTU/ASCII, disable RTU/ASCII devices of disable the whole service if you need to use them.

# use following command to disable Modbus Master service in AIG
sudo systemctl disable moxa-modbus-master
sudo systemctl stop moxa-modbus-master

(*2) Need to mount physical resources into Docker container

Development Guide

Generate an API Token

If you need to use REST API to interactive with AIG, an API token should be created first for authentication. Please follow the guideline below to generate an API token.

Generating an API Token for Application Development

AIG Function

1. What is Funciton
2. Development Notes and Limitations
3. (Example) Scheduled Operation Task 1 (by confg)
4. (Example) Scheduled Operation Task 2 (by code)
5. (Example) Enable onChange Feature on TagHub
6. (Example) Import Modbus Configuration File by Azure IoT Hub Direct Method
7. (Example) Virtual Tags by Hopping Window
8. (Example) Customize MQTT topic for updating tag values

Docker Container

1. Developing a Docker Container for AIG

Azure IoT Edge Module

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