Connect a Device

Thanks for choosing Milesight Development Platform! In this place, we will guide you through the major steps to help you add devices to platform quickly.

Step 1. Create a Milesight account

Before you can use Milesight Development Platform, you need to go to Milesight Development Platform to create an account. If this account does not belong to any enterprise, you need to create an enterprise, too.

For more information, see Become a Milesight Developer.

Step 2. Add devices to Milesight Development Platform

  1. Inquire the Supported Devices list before you start deploying devices.

    Note:
    • If your devices are not included in the list, click here to submit feedbacks.
    • If your devices are in the list but not working with supported firmware, click here to download firmware to upgrade devices.
  2. Add devices to Milesight Development Platform.

    If you do not have real devices, see Add Demo Device; if you have real devices, see Add devices individually or Add Devices in Bulk.

  3. Select the device data storage time as Never Store or 1 Day. The data storage content is include properties, event logs and service logs.

    For more information, see Device Data Storage.

    Note: when data storage is disabled, users can only receive device data via WebHook. The platform will not save any data, but service invocation and device configuration provision will not be affected.

Step 3. Configure your devices to connect Milesight Development Platform (Optional)

Click here to be familiar with the operation guides of devices first.

Non-LoRaWAN® End Devices
  1. Configure the device to access Internet network.
  2. Go to web GUI of device to enable the management by Milesight Development Platform.
  3. If you need the device to receive the configuration from Milesight Development Platform, enable Auto Provision option.
    Note: If you enabled Auto Provision for this device and set it NOT to connect to Milesight Development Platform, the device's status will consistently stay Disconnected.
LoRaWAN® End Devices
  1. Ensure there is already at least one LoRaWAN® gateway online on the Milesight Development Platform and Milesight Development Platform LNS is enabled.

  2. Power on the end device and keep default settings. If you already changed the default settings, it is necessary to configure below parameters to connect to Milesight Development Platform:
    1. Select join type as OTAA;
    2. Select supported frequency the same as LoRaWAN® gateway.
      Note: it is suggested to set channel index as 8-15 for US915 or AU915, which is the same as default settings of Milesight LoRaWAN gateway.

Step 4. Explore Milesight Development Platform services