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Published inNov 2018
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Giacomo Veneri
Giacomo Veneri
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Giacomo Veneri

Giacomo Veneri graduated in computer science from the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in neuroscience context with various scientific publications. He is Predix Cloud certified and an influencer, as well as SCRUM and Oracle Java certified. He has 18 years' experience as an IT architect and team leader. He has been an expert on IoT in the fields of oil and gas and transportation since 2013. He lives in Tuscany, where he loves cycling.
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Antonio Capasso
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Antonio Capasso

Antonio Capasso graduated in computer automation in 1999 and computer science in 2003 from the University of Naples. He has been working for twenty years on large and complex IT projects related to the industrial world in a variety of fields (automotive, pharma, food and beverage, and oil and gas), in a variety of roles (programmer, analyst, architect, and team leader) with different technologies and software. Since 2011, he has been involved in building and securing industrial IoT infrastructure. He currently lives in Tuscany, where he loves trekking and swimming.
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IoT Core

IoT Core is a basic service to manage devices and to receive data from an edge device. To enable IoT Core, we need to open the web console and click on IoT Core as shown in the following screenshot:

IOT Core on the AWS console

In the next sections, we are going to activate the policy to connect an external device through MQTT/MQTTS, create certificates, and register a new device (which is called a thing by AWS). AWS IoT uses X.509 certificates to enforce MQTT security.

After registration, we can implement our device on a local PC.

Setting the policies

AWS IoT applies security to protect our system. To allow a device to send data, we need to attach the following statements to the device—iot:Connect, iot:Subscribe...

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Giacomo Veneri

Giacomo Veneri graduated in computer science from the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in neuroscience context with various scientific publications. He is Predix Cloud certified and an influencer, as well as SCRUM and Oracle Java certified. He has 18 years' experience as an IT architect and team leader. He has been an expert on IoT in the fields of oil and gas and transportation since 2013. He lives in Tuscany, where he loves cycling.
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Antonio Capasso

Antonio Capasso graduated in computer automation in 1999 and computer science in 2003 from the University of Naples. He has been working for twenty years on large and complex IT projects related to the industrial world in a variety of fields (automotive, pharma, food and beverage, and oil and gas), in a variety of roles (programmer, analyst, architect, and team leader) with different technologies and software. Since 2011, he has been involved in building and securing industrial IoT infrastructure. He currently lives in Tuscany, where he loves trekking and swimming.
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