iot-device-simulator

Google Cloud Platform IoT Device Simulator

The following GCP components/services are involved:

• Compute Engine (f1-micro machine type)
• IoT Core service
• PubSub service

Prerequisites

• GCP user account with necessary permissions
• gcloud command installed and properly configured

Getting Up and Running

Open a terminal at the project root:

• Set environment variables in .env file (see .env.example).

• Run ./gcp-init.sh --confirm to perform GCP infrastructure initial setup.

• Run ./create-iot-device.sh with optional device ID argument, e.g.:

  $ ./create-iot-device.sh my-device
  

  by default GCP_DEVICE_ID value from .env file is used.

• Run ./run-iot-device.sh with optional device ID argument, e.g.:

  $ ./run-iot-device.sh -d my-device
  

  by default GCP_DEVICE_ID value from .env file is used.

  To be able to run device simulator in a background mode an extra optional argument -b can be added:

  $ ./run-iot-device.sh -d my-device -b
  

  You can run multiple instances of the device with different device ids.

  $ ./run-iot-device.sh -d my-device-1 -b
  $ ./run-iot-device.sh -d my-device-2 -b
  

TODO

• Add ability to run fake iot device in a background
• Use Docker containers to ship python code
• Use API calls instead of using gcloud (someday)
• Create Web application to manage fake iot devices (someday)